Crossword Puzzle Number 441 (Large Grid)

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1. Inquire about.
4. Large luxurious car.
8. Using speech rather than writing.
12. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
18. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
19. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
22. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
23. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
24. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
26. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
29. Great coolness and composure under strain.
31. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
33. Money demanded for the return of a captured person.
40. Not functioning properly.
44. One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada.
46. Situated at or extending to the side.
48. Chief port of Yemen.
49. (Greek mythology) Greek god of darkness who dwelt in the underworld.
52. Annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia.
53. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
54. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
55. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
56. Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits.
57. Large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste.
60. A source of danger.
61. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
63. The father of your father or mother.
65. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
66. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
69. Towards the side away from the wind.
70. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
72. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
73. Fail to do something.
77. A bachelor's degree in library science.
79. Despite anything to the contrary (usually following a concession).
82. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
86. German states who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992).
88. An unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang.
90. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
91. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
92. Lacking natural ease.
94. On or toward the lee.
95. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
96. The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves).
97. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. God of love and erotic desire.
4. A metal post supporting an outdoor lamp (such as a streetlight).
5. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
6. A port in southern Sweden.
7. State of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior.
8. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
9. Nearly cosmopolitan family.
10. Relating to the abomasum (the fourth compartment of the stomach of ruminants).
11. A local computer network for communication between computers.
12. African mahogany trees.
13. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
14. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.
15. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
25. French choreographer and ballet dancer (born in Russia) (1895-1979).
27. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
28. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
30. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
32. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
34. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
35. Being ten more than eighty.
36. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
37. Biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions.
38. Ninth month of the Revolutionary calendar (May and June).
39. Tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute.
41. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.
42. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
43. Deficient in amount or quality or extent.
45. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
47. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
50. Obvious and dull.
51. Flat rectangular plate (a piece of glass) on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study.
58. Not having or producing echoes.
59. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
62. United States abstract expressionist artist (1908-1984).
63. A metal post supporting an outdoor lamp (such as a streetlight).
64. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
67. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.
68. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
71. A decree that prohibits something.
74. A slender and greatly elongated solid substance.
75. Elk or moose.
76. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
78. Soft creamy white cheese.
80. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
81. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
83. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
84. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
85. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
87. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
89. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
93. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.

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