Crossword Puzzle Number 6651 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. Preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home).
12. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. A Russian river.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. Very dark black.
20. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
21. The quantity a cask will hold.
22. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
23. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
24. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
26. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
29. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
30. A bachelor's degree in science.
31. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. A resource.
35. Plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae.
38. Find repugnant.
40. Before noon.
41. A public promotion of some product or service.
42. Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Dombeya grown for their rounded clusters of exquisite often sweet-scented flowers usually hanging beneath the leaves.
45. Highly excited.
49. Woody tissue.
51. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
52. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
53. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
58. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
59. A Loloish language.
61. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
62. The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service.
63. Being one more than eighteen.
65. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
66. A city in northern India.
67. Type genus of the Coerebidae.
69. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
70. German mathematician who created the Klein bottle (1849-1925).
71. Ask for or request earnestly.
72. A drama set to music.
75. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
76. An associate degree in applied science.
77. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
80. Made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962.
88. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
90. In an unnatural eery manner.
92. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
93. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
94. A genus of Ploceidae.
96. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
97. Being five more than one hundred fifty.
98. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
99. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
100. A mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers).
101. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

DOWN

1. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
4. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
5. A meeting of spiritualists.
6. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
7. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
8. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
9. Nearly cosmopolitan family.
10. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
11. Preferred above all others and treated with partiality.
12. Rheumatic or myalgic pains in the arms or legs.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
14. Held dear.
15. Squash bugs.
25. Of or relating to a dialect of Sotho or the Bantu people who speak it.
27. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
28. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
32. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
34. The title of the ancient Egyptian kings.
36. The act of emitting.
37. A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution.
39. Minor or subordinate.
43. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
44. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
46. Feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat.
47. Of or relating to or suggestive of dreams.
48. United States singer and film actress (1922-1969).
50. Any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive.
54. Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land.
55. Australian physiologist noted for his research on the conduction of impulses by nerve cells (1903-1997).
56. Coming at a subsequent time or stage.
57. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Capable of making an error.
68. The grasses.
69. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
73. Liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned.
74. A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes.
78. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
79. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
81. Being three more than fifty.
82. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
83. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
84. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
85. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
86. Any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway.
87. A person who possesses great material wealth.
89. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
91. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
95. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.

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