Crossword Puzzle Number 4872 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
4. A broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle.
9. A blast of a horn.
13. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
18. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
19. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts.
22. The state capital of Alaska.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
26. Inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion.
28. Mosses similar to those of genus Bryum but larger.
29. Before noon.
30. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
32. Having the skin scraped off.
34. Definite but not specified or identified.
37. A bridge partner who increases the partner's bid.
40. Again but in a new or different way.
41. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
43. Any plant of the genus Astilbe having compound leaves and showy panicles of tiny colorful flowers.
45. Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa.
48. Stern foremost or backward.
49. (Norse mythology) The primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world.
54. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
55. Fertilizer made of ground bones.
57. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
58. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
59. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
60. A unit of length equal to 3 feet.
61. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
64. Of or relating to the kidneys.
66. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
67. English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829).
68. German statesman.
70. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
72. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
73. A cgs unit of work or energy.
74. (Babylonian) Earth goddess.
77. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
80. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
83. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
86. A cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment.
87. Refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style.
89. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
90. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
91. The specified day of the month.
93. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
94. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
95. (informal) Of the highest quality.
96. A stock exchange in New York.
97. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
98. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.

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1. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
2. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
3. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
4. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
5. Having no fixed course.
6. An Asian skiff usually propelled by two oars.
7. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
8. Type genus of the Majidae.
9. An enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue.
10. Large genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or small trees with large daisylike flowers.
11. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
12. Pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect wide-mouth yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with erect lids.
13. A cloth having a crisscross design.
14. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
15. A fraudulent business scheme.
21. Silverware eating utensils.
23. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
27. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
29. Having short a smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum.
31. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
35. Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness.
36. Either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from Rhodopsin by the action of light.
38. Causing abrasion.
39. Genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers.
42. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
44. The basic unit of money in Albania.
46. A card game for 2 players.
47. A kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans.
50. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
51. Wood of any of various alder trees.
52. Bubble shells.
53. Bursting into flower.
56. (trademark) A thin polyester film.
62. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
63. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
65. Climbing salamanders.
66. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
69. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
71. God of war.
75. Spiritual being attendant upon God.
76. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
78. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
79. A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).
81. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
82. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
84. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
85. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
88. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
92. Before noon.

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