Crossword Puzzle Number 6159 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
5. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
9. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
13. Not reflecting light.
16. Lacking companions or companionship.
17. Disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet.
18. Using speech rather than writing.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. A bar of sand.
22. Engross (oneself) fully.
24. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
25. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
26. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
29. Tranquilizer (trade name Ativan) used to treat anxiety and tension and insomnia.
30. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
32. Very light colored.
34. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
35. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
39. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
40. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
43. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
46. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
47. A genus of Ploceidae.
49. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
51. A sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey.
52. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
54. Lasting through all time.
55. A ribbon used as a decoration.
58. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
59. Not in action or at work.
60. Make more intense, stronger, or more marked.
65. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
68. Of or relating to or characteristic of Genoa or its inhabitants.
70. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
72. The bodily process of discharging waste matter.
75. A genus of evergreen shrub that grows in New Zealand.
79. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
82. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
84. Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares.
85. Dwell (archaic).
88. A heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects).
89. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
90. Having a nose (either literal or metaphoric) especially of a specified kind.
92. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
95. (informal) Of the highest quality.
96. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
97. An item inserted in a written record.
98. A metallic tapping sound.
99. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
100. 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.

DOWN

1. In addition.
2. Taking place over public roads.
3. Anneal or toughen by a process of gradually heating and cooling.
4. The framework of a bed.
5. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
6. Letters and packages that are transported by aircraft.
7. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
8. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
9. A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof.
10. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
11. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
12. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
21. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
23. A city in southwestern Russia in a valley of the Caucasus Mountains.
27. An associate degree in nursing.
28. Of or relating to a wedding.
31. Related on the mother's side.
33. An Old World reptile family of Sauria.
36. A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant.
37. Cause to agonize.
38. Relatively long in duration.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
44. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
45. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
48. Capital and largest city and major port of the Republic of Ireland.
50. A distinct feature or element in a problem.
53. (of eggs) No longer edible.
56. Dearly loved.
57. The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians.
61. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
62. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
63. Of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language.
64. A cry of sorrow and grief.
66. A unit of pressure.
67. A male human offspring.
69. From 40 million to 58 million years ago.
70. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
71. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
73. Person who does no work.
74. Poor enough to need help from others.
76. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
77. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
78. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
80. A slender double-reed instrument.
81. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
82. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
83. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
84. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
86. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
87. A polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables.
91. In operation or operational.
92. Being nine more than forty.
93. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
94. A state in northwestern North America.

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