Crossword Puzzle Number 6588 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. (Philippine) A dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish.
9. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
13. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
16. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
17. Anthropologist and linguist.
18. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. (trademark) A preparation of lindane that is used to kill lice and itch mites.
22. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
23. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
24. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
26. A pair of shoes with cleats on the soles.
28. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
29. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. A transuranic element.
32. A sharply directional antenna.
34. An outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles.
37. In operation or operational.
38. Of a pale purple color.
40. Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox.
42. A small hard fruit.
44. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
48. Web spinners.
52. A person forced to flee from home or country.
54. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
55. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
56. To some (great or small) extent.
60. A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.
61. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
63. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
65. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
67. A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th.
68. (British) Inferior (espcially of a country's leadership).
69. Of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization.
71. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
73. A member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico.
75. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
76. Midwife toads.
78. Involving or resulting from calcification.
80. A state in the western United States.
82. A used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads.
84. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
87. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
89. Prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules.
93. Sturdy annual of Peru.
95. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
97. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
98. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
99. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen).
101. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
103. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
104. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
105. Cover with drops, as with dew.
106. A small cake leavened with yeast.
107. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.

DOWN

1. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
2. The sixth month of the civil year.
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. Relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation.
5. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. An unimaginably large amount.
8. A city on the Loire river in north central France.
9. Characterized by enmity or ill will.
10. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
11. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
12. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
13. An ancient port city in southwestern Spain.
14. A loud harsh or strident noise.
15. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
25. Having some resemblance.
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. The face or front of a building.
31. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
33. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
35. (heraldry) Of or relating to heraldry or heraldic arms.
36. Cheap and inferior.
39. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
41. A calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth.
43. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
45. A state in midwestern United States.
46. A large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it.
47. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
49. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
50. Having relatively few calories.
51. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
53. Being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting.
57. An ancient jar with two handles and a narrow neck.
58. Constituting the undiminished entirety.
59. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
62. A turner with a narrow flexible blade.
64. An informal debt instrument.
66. Combining form.
70. Accompanied by a leader or guide.
72. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
74. Pacific newts.
75. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
77. A seat for the rider of a horse.
79. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
81. Having services engaged for a fee.
83. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
85. A genus of Mustelidae.
86. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
88. An extravagantly enthusiastic review.
90. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
91. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
92. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
94. Tag the base runner to get him out.
96. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
100. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
102. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
103. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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