Crossword Puzzle Number 4889 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Inquire about.
4. Bringing death.
9. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
13. Having only superficial plausibility.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
18. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
19. The month following March and preceding May.
20. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
21. Of or relating to Chios.
22. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
23. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
24. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
26. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
28. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
29. The cry made by sheep.
31. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
33. Thin and fit.
35. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
36. A Mid-Atlantic state.
38. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
45. In addition.
47. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
48. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
51. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
52. Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers.
55. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
56. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
57. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
59. A strong emotion.
60. An international organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules governing global trade.
61. A doctor's degree in religion.
62. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
63. Salty fluid secreted by sweat glands.
65. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
69. A contorted facial expression.
73. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
74. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
75. Very dark black.
78. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
81. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
84. Tall tender clumping bamboos.
87. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
90. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
91. In a nasty ill-tempered manner.
93. God of the Underworld.
94. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
96. Two items of the same kind.
98. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
99. Advanced in years.
100. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
101. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
102. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.

DOWN

1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
3. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
4. The face or front of a building.
5. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
6. (football) The person who plays tailback.
7. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
8. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
9. Remove completely from recognition or memory.
10. An industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border.
11. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
12. Take in solid food.
13. A genus of Ploceidae.
14. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
15. An evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia.
25. Large semi-evergreen tree of East India.
27. Coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position.
30. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
34. The brightest star in Ursa Minor.
37. Covered with frost.
39. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
40. A native of ancient Troy.
41. A recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing.
42. A salt or ester of hydriodic acid.
43. Any monosaccharide sugar containing four atoms of carbon per molecule.
44. Contrary to your interests or welfare.
46. (Zen Buddhism) A state of sudden spiritual enlightenment.
49. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
50. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
53. Either extremity of something that has length.
54. A small cake leavened with yeast.
58. A federally chartered savings bank.
64. The state of existing and being localized in space.
66. A green transparent form of beryl.
67. Remorse for your past conduct.
68. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
70. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
71. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
72. Pulled or drawn tight.
76. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
77. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
79. An informal term for a father.
80. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
82. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
83. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
85. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
86. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
88. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
89. Type genus of the Ranidae.
92. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
95. A public promotion of some product or service.
97. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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