Crossword Puzzle Number 4440 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Extremely pleasing.
4. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
9. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
16. Used of a single unit or thing.
17. A positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device.
18. Make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence.
19. A human limb.
20. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Estonia.
22. An ore that is the chief source of zinc.
24. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
25. Large snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes.
26. An occasion for excessive eating or drinking.
28. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. A member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called pueblos by the Spanish because they live in villages built of adobe and rock.
33. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
34. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
36. A bottomless gulf or pit.
40. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
43. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
45. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
50. (Roman mythology) God of love.
51. Any of various units of capacity.
52. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
53. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
54. A long narrow natural elevation or striation.
57. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
59. A period of time spent sleeping.
60. A negatively charged atom.
61. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
63. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
65. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
66. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
67. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
69. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
71. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
75. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
76. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
78. Fallow deer.
79. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
83. The basic unit of money in Saudi Arabia.
85. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
88. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
91. Avatar of Vishnu.
93. The month following February and preceding April.
94. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
95. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
96. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
97. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
98. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
99. A person to whom money is paid.
100. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
101. Tag the base runner to get him out.
102. A public promotion of some product or service.

DOWN

1. A group of 3 goddesses of destiny.
2. Squash bugs.
3. A reflex that expels wind noisily from the stomach through the mouth.
4. Pouch used in the shipment of mail.
5. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
6. English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924).
7. A public promotion of some product or service.
8. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
9. A line of approach.
10. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
11. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
12. The seed of the cereal grass.
13. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
14. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
15. A city in northern India.
21. Be about.
23. An enzyme secreted in the digestive tract that catalyzes the breakdown of fats into individual fatty acids that can be absorbed into the bloodstream.
27. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
30. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
35. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
37. Of or relating to or characteristic of Yemen or its inhabitants.
38. Recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances.
39. Bell magpies.
41. Small genus of deciduous West Indian trees or shrubs.
42. Getting bald.
44. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
46. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
47. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
48. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
49. A port city in southwestern Iran.
55. The basic unit of money in Haiti.
56. Half the width of an em.
58. Reduction or lack of an immune response to a specific antigen.
62. Bubble shells.
64. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
70. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
72. A toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles.
73. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
74. Alligator-like reptile of Central and South America having a more heavily armored belly.
77. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
80. In bed.
81. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
82. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
83. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
84. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
86. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
87. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
89. Standard temperature and pressure.
90. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
92. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.

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