Crossword Puzzle Number 6640 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. A state in the western United States.
13. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
16. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
17. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
18. Tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood.
19. Either extremity of something that has length.
20. Permitting leaks or leakage.
22. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
25. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
26. 10 grams.
27. Very dark black.
28. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
30. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
31. Greek mythology.
33. A light touch or stroke.
34. A genus of Ploceidae.
36. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
44. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
45. Take in solid food.
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. Very steep.
54. Someone who escorts and protects a prominent person.
57. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
58. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
59. The operator of streetcar.
60. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
65. Type genus of the Anatidae.
66. Proceed or issue forth, as from a source.
68. Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200).
69. United States film actor (born in 1956).
71. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
73. The basic unit of money in Myanmar.
74. Fail to do something.
79. A group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea.
83. A great raja.
87. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
88. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
90. A thermoplastic polyamide.
91. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
93. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
95. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
96. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
97. A large number or amount.
98. English essayist (1775-1834).
99. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).

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1. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
2. Appeal or request earnestly.
3. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
4. Free from liquid or moisture.
5. A state in midwestern United States.
6. Having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds.
7. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
8. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
9. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
10. A large faint constellation in the southern hemisphere containing most of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
11. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
12. An expression of greeting.
13. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
14. Beyond what is natural.
15. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
21. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
23. Advanced in years.
24. A canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse).
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. Seed of a pea plant.
35. A person who is physically weak and ineffectual.
37. Any of several plants of the genus Achillea native to Europe and having small white flowers in flat-topped flower heads.
38. A chemical substance that is present at the start of a chemical reaction.
40. Type genus of the Balaenidae.
41. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
42. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
43. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
46. A traditional Moslem headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head.
47. A radioactive transuranic element.
48. United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881).
49. A fixed look with eyes open wide v 1.
51. Having a gray appearance.
53. The quantity a flask will hold.
55. A slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish.
56. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
63. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
64. A workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold.
67. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
68. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
70. An enclosed space.
72. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
75. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
76. Affect with wonder.
77. Obvious and dull.
78. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
80. Remove from office.
81. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
82. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
84. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
85. A humorous anecdote or remark.
86. Again but in a new or different way.
89. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
92. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
94. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.

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