Crossword Puzzle Number 6591 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. One who is playfully mischievous.
9. A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
16. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
17. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
18. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
19. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
20. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
21. A formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services.
22. Selling or related to selling direct to the consumer.
24. The capital and largest city of Greece.
26. Acting according to certain accepted standards.
27. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
28. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
31. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
32. Large semi-evergreen tree of East India.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
40. Taken or to be taken at random.
41. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
45. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
46. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
47. Being nine more than ninety.
49. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
50. A linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons.
52. The present occasion.
54. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
55. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
57. (Irish) The sea personified.
58. The sign language used in the United States.
60. An accountant certified by the state.
62. A contorted facial expression.
64. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
66. The residue that remains when something is burned.
68. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
70. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
71. Before noon.
72. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
74. In a manner lacking interest or vitality.
76. Of or relating to the island republic of Nauru or its residents.
79. Any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers.
81. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
82. (prefix) Within.
83. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
86. (informal) Exceptionally good.
91. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
92. A local computer network for communication between computers.
94. Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.
97. Either extremity of something that has length.
98. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
99. At or constituting a border or edge.
100. Extremely pleasing.
101. The cry made by sheep.
102. A noisy riotous fight.
103. Made of fir or pine.
104. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
2. Petty quarrel.
3. The snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the Organ of Corti.
4. The complete duration of something.
5. A genus of Psittacidae.
6. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
7. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
8. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
11. A hard protective sheath as secreted by certain protoctists e.g..
12. English monk and scholar (672-735).
13. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
14. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
15. Look at with amorous intentions.
23. The capital of Nationalist China.
25. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
29. (trademark) An antacid.
30. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
33. Woolly aphids.
35. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
36. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
38. Relating to or resembling a cone.
39. By that means or because of that.
42. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
43. Point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch).
44. Being two more than forty.
48. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
51. Great brightness.
53. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
56. Informal terms for objecting.
59. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
61. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
63. A landlocked republic in southern central Africa.
65. Lean end of the neck.
67. A person employed to watch for something to happen.
69. Used of persons.
73. A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
75. An associate degree in nursing.
77. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
78. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
80. An especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding).
84. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
85. Jordan's port.
87. Type genus of the Ranidae.
88. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
89. Having wisdom that comes with age and experience.
90. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
91. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
93. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
95. The fatty flesh of eel.
96. A master's degree in fine arts.

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