Crossword Puzzle Number 6620 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Informal terms for the mouth.
4. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
8. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
12. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
16. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
17. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
18. An unforeseen obstacle.
19. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
20. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
21. Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk.
22. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
23. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
24. A vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery.
26. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
29. The airforce of Great Britain.
30. After a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like `likewise' or `also'.
31. Jordan's port.
34. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
39. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
42. Gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth.
44. A port and tourist center in southwestern Italy.
46. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
47. Very dark black.
48. Before noon.
50. A state of southwestern India.
53. In bed.
54. The honeycreepers.
57. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
59. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
60. A poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species.
61. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
62. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
63. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
66. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
67. Being ten more than thirty.
69. Small creeping evergreen shrubs.
71. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
72. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
75. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
76. Choose and follow.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
80. Any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions.
82. Informal terms for a mother.
88. God of the underworld and judge of the dead.
91. A light touch or stroke.
92. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
93. In the Roman calendar.
95. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
97. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
98. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
99. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
100. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
101. How long something has existed.

DOWN

1. Not only so, but.
2. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
3. Humble request for help.
4. French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836).
5. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
6. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
7. Any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes.
8. One thousandth of a second.
9. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
10. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. Gone by.
13. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
14. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
15. A submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water.
25. An island in Antigua and Barbuda.
27. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
28. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
32. Edge tool used as a cutting instrument.
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. Clumsy and unskilled.
36. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
37. The amount that has spoiled.
38. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
40. Preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed.
41. Mixtures of vinegar or wine and oil with various spices and seasonings.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. God of fire.
49. French mime famous for his sad-faced clown (born in 1923).
51. A horizontal bar that goes across something.
52. A city of southeastern Mexico.
55. A field on which the buildings of a university are situated.
56. American poet (born in England) (1907-1973).
64. A sudden short attack.
65. A chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief).
68. An ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq.
69. French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836).
70. Specify individually.
71. One thousandth of a second.
73. In or belonging to the air or operating (for or by means of aircraft or elevated cables) in the air.
74. (of a woman's body) Having a large bosom and pleasing curves.
77. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
79. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
81. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
83. An associate degree in nursing.
84. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
85. The content of cognition.
86. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
87. A French abbot.
89. A young woman making her debut into society.
90. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
94. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
95. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
96. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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