Crossword Puzzle Number 4989 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. A quantity of no importance.
12. An Indian unit of length having different values in different localities.
16. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
18. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
19. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
20. Of or relating to the system for delivering mail.
22. A performer who dances.
24. Young sheep.
25. To fix or set securely or deeply.
26. Concerned with religion or religious purposes.
28. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
30. A state in midwestern United States.
32. A literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning.
36. Unknown god.
37. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
41. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
42. Jackal-headed god of tombs.
45. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high).
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
49. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
50. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
52. A graphic character used in ideography.
56. The habitation of wild animals.
58. Typical geese.
60. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
61. Small genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs.
63. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
64. Chief port of Yemen.
65. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
66. A city in northeastern Ohio.
69. Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930).
71. Public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive.
73. Being nine more than ninety.
75. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
79. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
85. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
87. Orange liqueur with lemon juice and brandy.
89. The ability and desire to purchase goods and services.
91. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
92. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
93. Jordan's port.
95. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
96. The residue that remains when something is burned.
97. Late time of life.
98. A woman of refinement.
99. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
100. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.

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1. A person who is tricked or swindled.
2. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
3. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
4. A port city in southwestern Iran.
5. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. (aeronautics) Designating an airship having a shape maintained only by internal gas pressure and without a supporting structure.
9. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
10. A notable achievement.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. Rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above 1 basal leaf.
13. Toward the mouth or oral region.
14. (prefix) Half or partial.
15. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
21. (Judaism) Not conforming to dietary laws.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
29. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
31. A large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression.
33. Fungi with yellowish gelatinous sporophores having convolutions resembling those of the brain.
34. Reveal the true nature of.
35. Sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
38. A New England state.
39. Used of persons.
40. Having close kinship and appropriateness.
43. The capital of Mali.
44. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity.
47. East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks.
51. A language group of the Hokan family.
53. An accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing.
54. Shining intensely.
55. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
57. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
59. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
62. A poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare.
67. Having been read.
68. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
70. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
72. A landlocked republic in central Africa.
74. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
75. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
76. The smallest detectable sensation.
77. Lower in esteem.
78. Russian country house.
80. The basic unit of money in Iran.
81. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
82. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
83. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
84. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
86. By bad luck.
88. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
90. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
94. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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