Crossword Puzzle Number 6479 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. A shelter with perches for fowl or other birds.
9. German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910).
13. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
16. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
17. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
18. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
20. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
22. Set free as from prison or duty.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
28. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
29. British informal term.
30. A state in New England.
31. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
33. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
37. The residue that remains when something is burned.
39. Enthusiastic approval.
42. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
47. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
48. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram.
49. Of or relating to syllables.
52. A blast of a horn.
54. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
55. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
56. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
57. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
58. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
60. (Irish) The sea personified.
62. (informal) Of the highest quality.
63. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
64. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
66. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
68. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
69. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
70. Of or relating to the Sinhalese languages.
74. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
75. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
76. Have confidence or faith in.
77. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
78. Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing.
83. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
87. A red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein.
91. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
95. How long something has existed.
96. The officer below the master on a commercial ship.
97. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
99. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
100. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
101. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
102. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
103. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.

DOWN

1. A slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer.
2. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
5. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
6. An endorsement.
7. Big-eyed scad.
8. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
9. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
10. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
11. Ask for and get free.
12. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
13. Widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers.
14. Articles of the same kind or material.
15. God of fire.
21. A tranquilizer (trade name Navane) used to treat schizophrenia.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. Called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
34. An almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum.
35. Shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed.
36. Bright and pleasant.
38. (Assyrian and Babylonian) The chief sun god.
40. Lacking gonads.
41. Providing protective supervision.
43. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
44. (Welsh) Corresponds to Iris Ler.
45. In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
46. Being one more than ninety.
50. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
51. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
53. Alloy of copper and tin and zinc.
59. German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913).
61. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
65. Type genus of the Anatidae.
67. A small cake leavened with yeast.
71. Morning glory.
72. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
73. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
74. Widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers.
79. Time during which some action is awaited.
80. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
81. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
82. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
84. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
85. In bed.
86. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
87. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
88. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
89. Goddess of fertility.
90. World's longest river (4187 miles).
92. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
93. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
94. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
98. A unit of potential equal to a thousand volts.

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