Crossword Puzzle Number 4821 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
4. Treated with some kind of application.
9. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
13. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
16. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
17. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
18. The time during which someone's life continues.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. A master's degree in library science.
22. Either extremity of something that has length.
25. A small vessel for travel on water.
26. An Old World reptile family of Sauria.
28. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
29. The month following July and preceding September.
31. A fabric made by knitting.
32. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
35. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
38. A group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans.
42. An associate degree in nursing.
43. A person authorized to conduct religious worship.
45. The first event in a series.
47. A Chinese god worshipped in the form of an idol.
49. Perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes.
51. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
52. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
54. (Babylonian) The chief Babylonian god.
56. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
57. Patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes.
60. An expression of greeting.
61. Genus of low-growing mat-forming New Zealand plants.
64. Having three units or components or elements.
65. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
67. An account describing incidents or events.
68. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
71. A primeval personification of air and breath.
72. A committee having supervisory powers.
74. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
76. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
79. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
82. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
83. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
86. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
90. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
92. The act of scanning.
94. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
95. (informal) Of the highest quality.
96. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
97. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
98. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
99. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
100. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
101. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
102. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).

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1. A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge.
2. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
3. A deep bow.
4. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
5. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
6. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
7. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
8. A Mid-Atlantic state.
9. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
10. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
11. Soviet geneticist whose adherence to Lamarck's theory of evolution was favored by Stalin (1898-1976).
12. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
13. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
14. Speaking a Slavic language.
15. A small cake leavened with yeast.
21. English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901).
23. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
24. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
27. Any expected deliverer.
30. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
33. 1 species.
34. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
36. (aeronautics) Designating an airship having a shape maintained only by internal gas pressure and without a supporting structure.
37. A town in north central Oklahoma.
39. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
40. A merchant who sells goods at retail.
41. Often cultivated for the decorative foliage.
44. Rate of revolution of a motor.
46. After noon.
48. Excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm.
50. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
53. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
55. A member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas.
58. A small fragment.
59. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
62. A resident of Utah.
63. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
66. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
69. A town in southern Minnesota.
70. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
73. Of or relating to or resembling the eye.
75. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
77. Type genus of the Phocidae.
78. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
80. The sacred city of Lamaism.
81. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
84. God of love and erotic desire.
85. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
87. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
88. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
89. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
91. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
93. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.

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