Crossword Puzzle Number 6290 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
4. Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
12. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
16. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
17. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
18. A member of an Indian people of northern California living along the Russian River valley and adjacent Pacific coast.
19. Very dark black.
20. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
21. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
22. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
23. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
24. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. (Mexican) Ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans.
29. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
30. Chief god.
32. The residue that remains when something is burned.
34. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
36. Lighted by or as if by twilight.
38. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
40. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
46. A New England state.
48. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. An intellectual being.
55. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
56. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
58. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
59. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
62. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
64. A republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast.
65. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
69. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
70. Smooth-leaved kale.
72. Avatar of Vishnu.
74. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
75. (Judaism) Not conforming to dietary laws.
77. Characteristic of false pride.
81. The final stages of an extended process of negotiation.
85. Goddess of the heavens and married love.
87. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
88. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.
90. A successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball).
91. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
92. Jordan's port.
94. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
95. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
96. A periodic paperback publication.
97. Big-eyed scad.
98. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.

DOWN

1. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
2. An elaborate song for solo voice.
3. Wig for men fashionable in 17th-18th centuries.
4. An antibacterial drug (trade names Rifadin and Rimactane) used to treat tuberculosis.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
7. A rounded projection or protuberance.
8. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
9. An illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor.
10. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
11. Former name for the order Crocodylia.
12. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
14. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
15. Administer an oil or ointment to.
25. Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises.
27. (British slang) Cafe.
31. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
33. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
35. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
37. To whatever place.
39. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
41. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
42. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
43. Animal food for browsing or grazing.
44. A solid mass of blastomeres that forms when the zygote splits.
45. United States physicist who invented the bubble chamber to study subatomic particles (born in 1926).
47. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
49. Any admirable quality or attribute.
51. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
52. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
53. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
54. Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980).
57. A mistake resulting from inattention.
60. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
66. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
67. Of or pertaining to the adrenal glands or their secretions.
68. Affecting things past.
71. Creation that is created again or anew.
73. Noisy quarrel.
76. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
78. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
79. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
80. Relating to or accompanying birth.
82. A star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process.
83. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
84. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
86. Type genus of the Ranidae.
89. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
93. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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