Crossword Puzzle Number 6597 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
5. Peptic hormone produced by the mucous lining of the small intestine.
13. Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province.
17. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
18. Of or relating to or characteristic of Croatia or its people or language.
19. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
20. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
21. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
22. A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols.
24. The capital of Bahrain.
26. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
28. Black tropical American cuckoo.
29. An associate degree in nursing.
30. A bottle with a stopper.
32. Made of wood of the aspen tree n.
36. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
37. Relating to or used in making cabinets.
41. Wood of a sumac.
44. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
48. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
49. Any plant of the genus Erica.
50. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
52. The highest point of something.
53. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
55. A string of islands off the northwestern coast of Norway in the Norwegian Sea.
57. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
58. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
59. The quantity that can be held in the lap.
60. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
62. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
63. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
64. Very sophisticated especially because of surfeit.
67. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
69. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
72. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
73. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
76. Reduce to lay status.
79. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
81. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
82. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
83. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened.
86. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng.
88. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
92. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
95. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
96. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
97. An unforeseen obstacle.
99. Type genus of the Ranidae.
100. Step on it.
101. World's longest river (4187 miles).
102. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
103. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
104. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

DOWN

1. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
2. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
3. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
5. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
6. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
7. The part of a coal seam that is being cut.
8. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
9. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
10. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
11. A state in midwestern United States.
12. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
13. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
14. Type genus of the Majidae.
15. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
16. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
23. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
25. Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation.
27. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
31. A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Vela.
33. The range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art".
34. The seventh month of the civil year.
35. A facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth.
38. A period of time spent sleeping.
39. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
40. Sometimes classified as member of order Taxales.
42. A nitrogen-containing base found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine.
43. Mite or tick.
45. Tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw.
46. Especially of a ship's lines etc.
47. Little known Kamarupan languages.
51. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
54. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
56. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
61. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
65. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
66. Relating to or designed for or using the singing voice.
68. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
69. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
70. The stipend assigned by a cathedral to a canon.
71. Estrangement from god.
74. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
75. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
77. Any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain.
78. Being nine more than ninety.
80. Of a yellowish brown color similar to olive drab n.
81. An associate degree in nursing.
84. European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors.
85. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
87. Affected manners intended to impress others.
89. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
90. Characteristic of false pride.
91. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
93. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
94. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
98. A public promotion of some product or service.

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