Crossword Puzzle Number 4978 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts.
4. (computer science) A rule stating that the quality of the output is a function of the quality of the input.
8. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
12. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
16. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
17. Beyond what is natural.
18. Advanced in years.
19. Not widely known.
20. Leader in the women's suffrage movement in Montana.
22. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
24. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
25. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
28. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
30. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
32. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
35. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
36. Either of two large muscles of the chest.
40. The closing section of a musical composition.
43. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
46. Club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron.
47. Type genus of the Ariidae.
49. Type genus of the Papaveraceae.
51. A resource.
52. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
53. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
55. A copy made by the xerox process.
58. A state in New England.
59. English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901).
61. A distinctive odor that is pleasant.
62. United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944).
64. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.
65. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
66. Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction.
68. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
70. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
71. A Mid-Atlantic state.
73. A short sleep (usually not in bed).
79. A port city in southwestern Iran.
83. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
87. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
88. French poet (born in Romania) who was one of the cofounders of the Dada movement (1896-1963).
90. Moderate in type or degree or effect or force.
92. The month following February and preceding April.
93. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
94. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
95. Type genus of the Amiidae.
96. A master's degree in fine arts.
97. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
98. Of uncertain outcome.
99. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
100. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
101. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.

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1. An aperture or hole opening into a bodily cavity.
2. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
3. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
4. A geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam.
5. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
6. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
7. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
8. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
9. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
10. Cause to become detached or separated.
11. The capital and largest city of Japan.
12. The father of your father or mother.
13. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
14. 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.
15. Cut off the testicles.
21. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
23. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
26. Diving ducks of North America having a bluish-gray bill.
27. 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.
29. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
31. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
33. The seed of flax used as a source of oil.
34. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
37. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
38. (Greek mythology) Fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail.
39. A step to one side (as in boxing or dancing).
41. Addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous).
42. Reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity.
44. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
45. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
48. A native-born Israeli.
50. Further or added.
54. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
56. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
57. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
60. Having a back or backing, usually of a specified type.
63. The protruding part of the lower jaw.
67. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
69. A light touch or stroke.
72. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
74. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
75. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
76. Held back.
77. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
78. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
80. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
81. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
82. A polite name for any woman.
84. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
85. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
86. Toward the mouth or oral region.
89. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
91. (Irish) The sea personified.

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