Crossword Puzzle Number 6161 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. First in order of importance.
9. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
13. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
16. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. (Greek mythology) King of Thebes who was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus.
18. A Scottish word.
19. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
20. Many times at short intervals.
21. Commit forever.
23. Make lighter or brighter.
25. The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose.
27. Of a particle or body or system.
28. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
29. 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.
31. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
33. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
34. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
35. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
36. A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables.
40. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
45. A path set aside for walking.
46. Appeal or request earnestly.
49. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
51. A deep prolonged loud noise.
52. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
53. Of southern Asia.
57. Goddess of fate.
58. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
60. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
62. An Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland.
64. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
66. A person who is rejected (from society or home).
67. A sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory.
68. The part of a coal seam that is being cut.
70. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
72. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
73. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
74. (informal) Exceptionally good.
76. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
78. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
80. Be teeming, be abuzz.
83. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
84. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
86. Toward the mouth or oral region.
88. A three-tone Chadic language.
91. Iris with purple flowers and evil-smelling leaves.
93. Fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity.
96. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
97. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
98. Fill with high spirits.
100. English monk and scholar (672-735).
101. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
102. A doctor's degree in education.
103. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
104. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
105. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..

DOWN

1. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
2. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
3. Subdivision not used in some classifications.
4. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
5. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
6. South American tamarin with a tufted head.
7. In a softened tone.
8. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
9. A Chinese puzzle consisting of a square divided into seven pieces that must be arranged to match particular designs.
10. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
11. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
12. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
13. An Asian river between China and Russia.
14. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
15. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
22. United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918).
24. An East Indian sailor.
26. Included seven times in every 19 years.
30. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds.
32. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
37. A Formosan language.
38. Full of longing or unfulfilled desire.
39. An abnormal inward (forward) curvature of the vertebral column.
41. Whiten with Blanco.
42. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
43. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
44. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
47. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
48. Black-and-white diving bird of northern seas.
50. A protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers.
54. Pierce with a sharp stake or point.
55. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
56. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
59. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
61. A binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element.
63. Concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement.
65. Exultantly proud and joyful.
69. A member of the baseball team that is in the field instead of at bat.
70. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
71. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
75. Supernatural half-man and half-bird vehicle or bearer of Vishnu.
76. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
77. Relating to or characteristic of the Celts.
79. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
81. An atom having a valence of one.
82. Any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis.
85. A lyric poet.
87. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
88. An informal term for a father.
89. Avatar of Vishnu.
90. A primeval personification of air and breath.
92. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
93. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
94. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
95. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
99. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.

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