Crossword Puzzle Number 6259 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. American professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948).
13. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
16. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
17. A chronic disease of the nose characterized by a foul-smelling nasal discharge and atrophy of nasal structures.
18. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
19. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. Lacking motor coordination.
23. The Dravidian language spoken by the Kolam people in central India.
25. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
27. A white mineral consisting of magnesium sulphate and potassium chloride.
29. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
30. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
32. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
33. A female bartender.
35. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
37. The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work.
41. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
42. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
44. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
46. Wearing or provided with clothing.
48. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
50. (informal) Roused to anger.
53. Of a leaf shape.
54. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. (poetic) Still or calm.
57. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
58. An international organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules governing global trade.
61. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
63. A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion.
64. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
66. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
67. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
68. A large ax with a broad cutting blade.
71. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
72. A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes.
74. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
75. An antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class.
78. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
80. An alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon.
83. French painter and exponent of Fauvism (1876-1958).
87. (Greek mythology) A sorceress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine.
88. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
89. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
90. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries.
93. Periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles.
94. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
95. A master's degree in religion.
97. A sudden short attack.
98. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
99. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
100. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
101. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
102. The emotion of hate.

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1. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
2. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
3. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
4. The grasses.
5. An antiviral drug used in the treatment of AIDS.
6. Having or resembling a beak.
7. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
8. Used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders.
9. Directions for making something.
10. (legal terminology) The Latin word for wife.
11. A member of a North American Indian people of southwestern Oregon.
12. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
13. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
14. Avatar of Vishnu.
15. Baby bed with high sides.
22. Not out.
24. A maker of laws.
26. A large fleet.
28. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
31. A metallic tapping sound.
34. A dead axle on a carriage or wagon that has terminal spindles on which the wheel revolve.
36. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
38. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
39. The state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more.
40. Someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement).
43. Related to or derived from the people or culture of Spain.
45. Ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side.
47. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
49. A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification.
51. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
52. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
56. Constituting the undiminished entirety.
59. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
60. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
62. A Muslim woman of high rank in India or Pakistan.
65. Being eight more than eighty.
69. 1 species.
70. Youngest daughter of the prophet Mohammed and wife of the fourth calif Ali.
71. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
73. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained.
76. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
77. Abnormal dryness of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eyes.
79. Remove the surface of.
81. Enthusiastic approval.
82. (Greek mythology) A river in Hades.
84. A narrow way or road.
85. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
86. A quantity of no importance.
91. An enclosed space.
92. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
96. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.

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