Crossword Puzzle Number 4801 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The unit of frequency.
4. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
9. Being of delicate or slender build.
13. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. (informal) Elegant and fashionable.
18. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
19. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
20. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
22. An act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification).
25. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
27. Obvious and dull.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
32. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
34. (archaic) Utterly cast down.
35. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
37. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
38. Any shape that is triangular in cross section.
39. Not very intelligent or interested in culture.
44. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
48. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
50. God of wealth and love.
52. A violent throw.
53. (informal) Of the highest quality.
56. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
57. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
63. A quantity of no importance.
64. A short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play.
65. (Greek mythology) The ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades.
66. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
67. A mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid.
68. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
70. Squash bugs.
71. United States heavyweight boxing champion (1866-1933).
75. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
76. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
78. A gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus.
81. (informal) Exceptionally good.
88. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
91. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
93. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
95. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
96. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
97. American author of inspirational adventure stories for boys.
98. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
99. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
100. A light touch or stroke.
101. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
102. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
103. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

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1. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
4. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
5. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
6. Cause to break up or function, as of groups and organizations.
7. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
8. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
9. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
10. A boy or man.
11. The content of cognition.
12. A state in New England.
13. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
14. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
15. The state of being unsure of something.
21. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
23. Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.
24. The 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
26. Remaining after all deductions.
29. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. Nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter.
40. Someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding.
41. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
42. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
43. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
45. The first light of day.
46. A high-ranking university administrator.
47. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
49. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
51. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
54. Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods.
55. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
58. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
59. Quick and skillful in movement.
60. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
61. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
62. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
69. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
70. The content of cognition.
72. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
73. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
74. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
77. To fix or set securely or deeply.
79. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
80. Any plant of the genus Erica.
82. Avatar of Vishnu.
83. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
84. A Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer.
85. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
86. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
87. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
89. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
90. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
92. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
94. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.

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