Crossword Puzzle Number 6189 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
4. The capital of Western Samoa.
8. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
12. An informal term for a father.
16. A port in southwestern Scotland.
17. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
18. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
19. Toward the mouth or oral region.
20. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
21. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
22. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
23. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
24. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
26. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
28. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
29. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
31. The act of escaping physically.
34. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
36. Common Indian weaverbird.
37. Type genus of the family Elephantidae.
41. On or toward the lee.
46. A repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone v 1.
47. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
48. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
51. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
52. The sacred city of Lamaism.
54. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
57. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
58. Used of a single unit or thing.
59. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
61. A system of solmization using the solfa syllables.
63. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
64. The organ stop having a tone of soft sweet string quality.
67. A writer of literary works.
70. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
71. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
74. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
77. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
78. (anatomy) Of or relating to a cavity or chamber in the body (especially one of the upper chambers of the heart).
80. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
82. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
86. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
88. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
90. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
94. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
95. An artificial language.
99. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
100. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
101. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
103. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions.
104. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
105. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
106. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
107. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
2. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
3. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
4. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
5. Make powerless and unable to function.
6. A strong emotion.
7. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
8. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
9. A purgative made from the leaves of aloe.
10. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times.
13. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
15. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
25. The superior of a group of nuns.
27. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
30. A state in midwestern United States.
32. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
33. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
35. (informal) A very large profit.
38. (Japan) Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword.
39. An island northwest of Wales.
40. Relating to or of the nature of or having a mouth or mouthlike opening.
42. A member of a North American Indian people living on the California coast near Monterey.
43. Involving or constituting a cause.
44. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
45. Having leaves or leaves as specified.
49. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
50. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
53. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
55. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
56. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
60. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
62. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
65. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
66. (law) Lacking any legal or binding force.
68. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
69. A skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer).
72. A lake in northwestern Russia.
73. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
76. United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951).
79. Cheeselike food made of curdled soybean milk.
81. Anthropologist and linguist.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
83. Jordan's port.
84. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
85. A Russian river.
87. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
89. A small cake leavened with yeast.
90. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
91. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
92. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
93. Type genus of the Ranidae.
96. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
97. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
98. A slight amount or degree of difference.
102. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.

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