Crossword Puzzle Number 6072 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Fill to satisfaction.
5. Elegant and stylish.
9. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
13. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
16. Make editorial changes (in a text).
17. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
18. (Welsh) Corresponds to Iris Ler.
19. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
20. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
22. A sudden and violent collapse.
24. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
25. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
26. Bringing death.
28. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
30. An informal term for a father.
32. A quantity of no importance.
33. Nocturnal wildcat of Central and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat.
34. A radioactive transuranic element.
36. Half the width of an em.
37. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
40. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
43. Of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section.
47. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
48. The process of leaching.
50. A musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms.
53. (combining form) Very large in scale or scope or capability.
55. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
56. 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.
58. A metal frame or container holding cartridges.
59. The act of rising upward into the air.
61. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
62. A festival featuring African-American culture.
63. (Irish) The sea personified.
65. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
66. A dense growth of bushes.
71. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
73. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
75. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
79. Perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers.
82. Made of or resembling lace.
83. A long monotonous harangue.
85. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
89. A kind of person.
92. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
94. An associate degree in applied science.
95. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
96. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
97. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
98. A transuranic element.
99. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
100. The friend of Phintias who pledged his life that Phintias would return (4th century BC).
101. A small cake leavened with yeast.
102. Towards the side away from the wind.

DOWN

1. Fastened with stitches.
2. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
3. Covered or furnished with tiles.
4. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
5. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
6. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
7. That is to say.
8. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
9. A downhill race over a winding course defined by upright poles.
10. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
11. Type genus of the Lycaenidae.
12. Declare formally.
13. A member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley.
14. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
15. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
21. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
23. A state in midwestern United States.
27. A benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin.
29. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
38. Undifferentiated tissue from which new cells are formed, as at the tip of a stem or root.
39. Order of social insects that live in colonies, including.
41. The state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed.
42. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
44. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
45. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
46. An indication of approved or superior status.
49. In a carnal manner.
51. Not of long duration.
52. A heading that names a statute or legislative bill.
54. A pair of shoes with cleats on the soles.
57. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
60. The production of young from an egg.
64. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
67. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
68. Loud and clear.
69. Informal terms for money.
70. Type and sole genus of the Clethraceae.
72. A state in northwestern North America.
74. An associate degree in nursing.
76. United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock'n'roll music (1925-1981).
77. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
78. State in northeastern India.
80. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
81. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
84. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
85. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
86. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
87. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
88. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
90. (informal) Roused to anger.
91. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
93. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.

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