Crossword Puzzle Number 6523 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
4. American Revolutionary patriot.
9. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
16. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
17. Tropical Asian starlings.
18. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
19. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
20. A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.).
22. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
25. Relating to the condition of immunity.
26. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs.
28. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
29. A piece of armor plate below the breastplate.
31. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
33. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
34. Unknown god.
35. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
39. Type genus of the Anatidae.
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
50. Of or relating to the aorta.
51. An elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond.
54. The face of a timepiece.
55. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
57. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
59. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
60. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
62. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
63. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
64. A state in midwestern United States.
65. An oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde.
67. In operation or operational.
68. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
71. Half the width of an em.
72. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
74. Trace the shape of.
76. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
80. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
81. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
82. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
86. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
89. An unusually small individual.
93. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
94. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
97. In bed.
99. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
100. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
101. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
102. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
103. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.

DOWN

1. A design that consists of recurring shapes or colors.
2. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
3. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying the primeval sea.
4. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.
5. Fraught with extreme danger.
6. An associate degree in nursing.
7. The capital of Bahrain.
8. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
10. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
11. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
12. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
13. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
14. A movable organ for flying (one of a pair).
15. A quantity of no importance.
21. East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan.
23. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
24. Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering.
27. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
30. Jordan's port.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. The food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel).
37. The theological doctrine taught by Arius that Christ the Son was not consubstantial with God the Father.
38. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Meclomen) used to treat arthritis.
40. Of or relating to the nervous system.
41. Away from the mouth or oral region.
43. Estimation of the amount of lumber in a log.
44. Any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103.
45. Badly injured, perhaps with amputation.
49. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
52. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
53. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
56. Big-eyed scad.
58. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
61. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
64. Spin or twist together so as to form a cord.
66. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
70. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
73. The cry made by sheep.
75. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
77. Any plant of the genus Erica.
78. Wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg.
79. Enthusiastic approval.
83. An informal term for a father.
84. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
85. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
87. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
88. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
90. Noisy talk.
91. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
92. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
95. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
96. The square of a body of any size of type.
98. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.

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