Crossword Puzzle Number 4490 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
4. Wood of a pecan tree.
9. Taking place over public roads.
13. An audiotape recording of sound.
16. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
17. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
18. The highest level or degree attainable.
19. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
20. Painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of Dadaism.
22. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
25. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
28. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
30. Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious.
33. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
34. A town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
36. The room in the palace of a native prince of India in which audiences and receptions occur.
39. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
43. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
47. Unknown god.
48. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
51. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
52. (trademark) An acrylic fiber or the lightweight crease-resistant fabric made with Orlon yarns.
54. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
56. Any small compartment.
57. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
60. German anatomist (1733-1794).
61. A habitual liar (after a New Testament character who was struck dead for lying).
63. In bed.
65. (Irish) The sea personified.
66. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
67. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
71. Discharge from the external ear.
73. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
75. The domain controlled by a duke or duchess.
76. United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery.
79. (informal) Exceptionally good.
80. Make difficult to perceive by sight.
83. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
85. (Phoenician and Philistine) God of agriculture and the earth.
89. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
91. Of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell.
93. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
94. An honorary degree in science.
95. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
97. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
98. A notable achievement.
99. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
100. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
101. An informal term for a father.
102. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. Having an oblique or slanting direction or position.
2. A three-tone Chadic language.
3. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
4. Having only superficial plausibility.
5. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
6. Lying in the same plane.
7. Before noon.
8. Of or in or relating to the nose.
9. Type genus of the Ranidae.
10. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
11. Type genus of the Amiidae.
12. A Mid-Atlantic state.
13. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
14. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
15. A character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter.
21. Type genus of the Sillaginidae.
23. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
24. In the open air.
26. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
27. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
29. The cry made by sheep.
31. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
32. Someone who is being trained.
35. A single-reed instrument with a straight tube.
37. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
38. A wine bottle made of leather.
41. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
44. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
45. Very large deep-water snake mackerel.
46. (archaic) Especially a light saddle horse for a woman.
49. Half the width of an em.
50. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
53. An extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America).
55. A public promotion of some product or service.
58. (Hinduism) An ascetic holy man.
59. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
62. Of or relating to or constituting the Scandinavian group of languages.
64. Any of various units of capacity.
68. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
69. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
70. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
71. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
72. Of or relating to or supporting Romanism.
74. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
77. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
78. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
79. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
81. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
82. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
84. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
86. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
87. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
88. A quantity of no importance.
90. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
92. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
96. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).

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