Crossword Puzzle Number 6217 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
4. 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.
9. The universal time coordinated time on board the spacecraft.
13. 10 grams.
16. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
17. Type genus of the Upupidae.
18. A substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid.
19. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
20. Water frozen in the solid state.
21. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
22. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
23. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
24. An ornament (such as a knot of ribbon or a rosette) usually worn on the hat.
28. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
31. Used in some especially older classifications.
33. Come into possession of.
36. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
38. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.
39. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
41. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
45. Free from dirt or impurities.
46. Hurt or upset.
49. Small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae.
50. No longer in your possession or control.
52. Having two feet.
54. An inhabitant of Lappland.
55. Not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society.
58. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
60. 1 species.
61. A message received and understood that reduces the recipient's uncertainty.
63. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
64. Sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food.
66. A B vitamin essential for the normal function of the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract.
69. (of animals or plants) Having stiff coarse hairs or bristles.
70. A town on Long Island in New York.
71. A French abbot.
75. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
76. 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.
82. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
86. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
87. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
89. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
90. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
91. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
94. A dry cold north wind in SE France.
96. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
97. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
98. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
99. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
100. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.

DOWN

1. Elegant and stylish.
2. Law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
5. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
6. Not very intelligent or interested in culture.
7. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
8. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
9. Work doggedly or persistently.
10. Plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped gray and green and white warty rinds.
11. The intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors.
12. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
13. The Teutonic god of thunder.
14. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
15. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter.
25. A small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra.
26. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
27. Become of.
29. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
30. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
32. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
34. Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
35. A supporting tower used to support a bridge.
37. Having accumulated or become more intense.
40. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
42. Wild llama.
43. The acetylated derivative of salicylic acid.
44. Plant again or anew.
47. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
48. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
51. The 3rd planet from the sun.
53. Stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen.
56. A midwestern state in north central United States.
57. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
62. Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair.
65. The capital of Western Samoa.
67. A kind of person.
68. Dearly loved.
72. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
73. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
74. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
77. A Loloish language.
78. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
79. A radioactive transuranic element.
80. Ulcerated chilblain on the heel.
81. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
83. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
84. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
85. Type genus of the Ranidae.
88. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
92. An honorary degree in science.
93. An associate degree in nursing.
95. 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.

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