Crossword Puzzle Number 4498 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An accidental happening.
4. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
9. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
17. Exceptionally bad or displeasing.
18. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
19. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
20. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
21. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
22. A large mass of ice floating at sea.
23. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. A surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull.
26. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
29. A typeface with thick heavy lines.
30. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
31. A genus of Bothidae.
33. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
36. An inhabitant of Lappland.
39. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
40. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
43. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
45. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
46. The prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races.
49. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
50. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
52. Flat blade-like projection on the arm of an anchor.
53. A detested person.
56. A native or inhabitant of Great Britain.
57. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
58. A city in southeastern South Korea.
59. A local computer network for communication between computers.
60. Fiddler crabs.
61. Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet.
63. A category in some early taxonomies.
65. A journey for some purpose (usually including the return).
66. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
69. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
70. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
72. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
74. French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557).
81. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
84. The capital of Morocco.
86. Advanced in years.
87. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
90. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
91. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
92. A water wheel with buckets attached to the rim.
94. A painful sore with a hard pus-filled core.
96. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
97. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
98. Similar to the color of fresh grass.
99. Belonging to some prior time.
100. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
101. A radioactive transuranic element.

DOWN

1. The handle of a weapon or tool.
2. The sixth month of the civil year.
3. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
4. The commonest type of solidified lava.
5. A landlocked republic in central Africa.
6. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
7. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
8. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
11. A city in northern India.
12. 10 grams.
13. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
14. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
25. Deep-dish meat and vegetable pie or a meat stew with dumplings.
27. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
28. Great coolness and composure under strain.
32. A Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
34. Genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals.
35. Tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes.
37. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
38. A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks in 479 BC.
41. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
42. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
44. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. One of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars.
48. New Zealand conifer.
51. A city in northwestern Turkey.
54. German physicist and chemist who formulated the third law of thermodynamics (1864-1941).
55. A female domestic.
62. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
64. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
67. Of or relating to the Iberian peninsula or its inhabitants.
68. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
71. Use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens.
73. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
75. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
76. A city in central Georgia southeast of Atlanta.
77. Of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times.
78. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
82. Having finished or arrived at completion.
83. Not fake or counterfeit.
85. A lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis.
88. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
89. Compete for something.
93. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
95. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).

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