Crossword Puzzle Number 6548 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
4. The temporal end.
9. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
13. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. Native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery.
18. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. A radioactive transuranic element.
22. Arranged in or consisting of laminae.
23. A flexible container with a single opening.
24. A high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc..
27. A thrombolytic agent (trade name Activase) that causes fibrinolysis at the site of a blood clot.
29. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
32. A whetstone made of fine gritstone.
33. A genus of European owls.
36. An ancient region of west central Italy (southeast of Rome) on the Tyrrhenian Sea.
39. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
43. Unstratified soil deposited by a glacier.
44. A drawing intended to explain how something works.
46. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon.
47. A farewell remark.
48. Of legislation.
49. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
50. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
55. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
57. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
58. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
61. A unit of power equal to 746 watts.
63. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
64. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
66. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
67. Speaking a Slavic language.
71. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
73. Having had the head cut off.
77. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
78. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
79. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
80. A painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table.
83. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
86. Structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure.
88. The quality of being lax and neglectful.
90. (informal) Of the highest quality.
92. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
94. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
95. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
96. A system of solmization using the solfa syllables.
97. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
98. A strong emotion.

DOWN

1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. Female equine animal.
4. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
5. The area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate.
6. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
7. A small island.
8. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
9. An elaborate song for solo voice.
10. Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle).
11. Microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica.
12. A republic in northeastern South America on the Atlantic.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. By bad luck.
15. Especially one side of a leaf.
25. A horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips.
26. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
28. A minute vein continuous with a capillary.
30. Offspring of a male lion and a female tiger.
31. The property of being smooth and shiny.
34. (law) A courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge in a trial that is held out of the jury's hearing.
35. Small genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs.
37. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
38. Biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root.
40. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
41. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
42. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
45. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
51. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
54. Before noon.
56. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
59. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
60. A loose-fitting protective garment that is worn over other clothing.
62. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
65. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
68. A boy or man.
69. In bed.
70. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
72. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
74. Any plant of the genus Erica.
75. Allowing passage in and out.
76. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
81. Type genus of the Ranidae.
82. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
84. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
85. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram.
87. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
89. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
91. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
93. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.

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