Crossword Puzzle Number 6589 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Inquire about.
4. Of or relating to or resembling the eye.
9. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
13. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
16. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
17. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
18. The imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC.
19. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
20. A pike fitted with an ax head.
22. The scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting).
24. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
25. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
26. A band around the collar of a garment.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. A sculpture representing a human or animal.
33. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
37. Towards the side away from the wind.
40. Being nine more than ninety.
41. A roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.).
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
46. Any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones.
49. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
50. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
51. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
53. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
54. Abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds.
57. A machine or person that adds.
60. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
61. A commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general.
62. A genus of Lamnidae.
64. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
65. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
68. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
69. Immediately past.
74. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
77. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
78. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
83. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
86. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
87. Perennial evergreen herbs with white or pink flowers.
89. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
91. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
92. Happen or occur again.
93. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
95. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
96. God of the earth.
97. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
98. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
99. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.

DOWN

1. A Loloish language.
2. (informal) Valuable goods.
3. A pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water.
4. Used of a single unit or thing.
5. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
6. The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon.
7. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
8. A metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping.
9. An event that occurs at a critical time.
10. A repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone v 1.
11. A capacious bag or basket.
12. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
13. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
14. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
15. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
21. United States film actor (1899-1957).
23. A Russian river.
27. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
28. A city in south central Mexico (southeast of Mexico City) on the edge of central Mexican plateau.
30. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
32. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
34. Coelenterate genus of order Madreporaria, including staghorn corals.
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. The father of your father or mother.
38. French writer considered by some to be a founder of the detective novel (1832-1873).
39. In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae.
42. The capital and largest city of Rwanda.
43. (computer science) The time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head.
45. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
47. A Greek unit of weight equal to one tenth of a gram.
48. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
52. Big-eyed scad.
55. A sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil.
56. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
58. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
59. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
63. A nation in northern North America.
66. Smoke trees.
67. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
70. A radioactive transuranic element.
71. Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen).
72. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
73. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
75. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
76. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
79. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
80. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
81. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
82. Any competition.
84. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
85. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
88. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
90. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
94. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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