Crossword Puzzle Number 6402 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
4. Slanderous defamation.
9. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
13. A castrated tomcat.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
20. (usually plural) When two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots the result is called `boxcars'.
22. Bent over or doubled up so that one part lies on another.
24. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
25. God of the Underworld.
26. A mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,709 feet high).
29. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
31. How long something has existed.
32. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
34. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
36. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
39. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
40. Half the width of an em.
42. A successful womanizer (after a fictional seducer).
47. Informal terms for a mother.
50. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
51. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
52. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
53. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
56. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
57. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
58. Found in moist places as rounded jellylike colonies.
61. Wood of a sumac.
64. An argument opposed to a proposal.
65. Give an incentive.
66. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
67. A compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals.
69. Choose and follow.
71. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
73. In the Roman calendar.
74. Hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo.
77. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
79. An honorary degree in science.
80. Using speech rather than writing.
81. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
83. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
85. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
88. Whiten with Blanco.
93. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
95. 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.
96. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
97. A European river.
98. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
100. A negative.
101. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
102. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
103. (informal) Very bad.
104. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
2. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
3. Someone who collects taxes for the government.
4. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
5. Small to medium evergreen dioecious trees of oceanic climates.
6. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
7. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
8. An exile who flees for safety.
9. Offering fun and gaiety.
10. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
11. Of or relating to or involving an area.
12. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
13. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
14. An iconic mental representation.
15. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
21. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
23. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
27. Not widely known.
28. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
30. 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.
33. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
35. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
37. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
38. Receives blood from lower limbs and abdominal organs and empties into the posterior part of the right atrium of the heart.
41. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
43. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
44. Used of decomposing oils or fats.
45. Uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting.
46. The quality of being united into one.
48. A person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure.
49. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
54. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
55. A tight embrace.
59. Walking on the tips of ones's toes so as to make no noise.
60. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
62. The largest of the Balearic Islands.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
68. Some point in the air.
70. The body of faculty and students of a college.
71. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
72. A public promotion of some product or service.
75. 1 species.
76. The doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element.
78. The jurisdiction or office of an abbot.
82. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
83. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
84. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
85. How long something has existed.
86. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
87. Anything that serves as an enticement.
89. Largest known toad species.
90. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
91. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
92. 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.
94. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
95. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
99. Being nine more than ninety.

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