Crossword Puzzle Number 6654 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
9. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
13. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
16. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
17. Of or like a cecum.
18. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
19. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. Having leadership guidance.
21. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
22. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. A fraudulent business scheme.
26. Nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing.
27. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
29. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
31. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
33. Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.
38. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
42. Someone who takes more time than necessary.
46. A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain.
47. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
49. Mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults.
51. A radioactive transuranic element.
52. An achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white.
53. Sect founded in the 6th century as a revolt against Hinduism.
55. A crime syndicate in the United States.
57. Step on it.
59. An innocuous or inert medication.
61. An advanced law degree.
62. King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959).
65. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
67. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
68. Lacking subtlety.
70. The eighth month of the civil year.
71. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
74. Conforming to truth.
75. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
77. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
78. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
80. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
84. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
89. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
90. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
93. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
94. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
95. Any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers.
97. Slightly wet.
99. (British) Your grandmother.
100. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
101. Short and fat.
102. In addition.
103. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. A master's degree in library science.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
5. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
6. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
7. (combining form) Very large in scale or scope or capability.
8. By bad luck.
9. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
10. Father of the storm gods Marut.
11. Gone by.
12. A deep bow.
13. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
14. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
15. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
25. Small spotted wildcat found from Texas to Brazil.
28. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
30. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
32. An unofficial association of people or groups.
34. A railcar where passengers ride.
35. United by being of the same opinion.
36. Large genus of tropical trees and shrubs.
37. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
39. (Sumerian) Evil storm god represented as a black bird.
40. A genus of evergreen climbers.
41. One who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel.
43. A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops.
44. Small air-breathing arthropod.
45. An appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips.
48. A tight-fitting headdress.
50. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
54. Locked in by ice.
56. Strip the skin off.
58. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
60. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
63. A person given to excessive complaints and crying.
64. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
66. Humorously vulgar.
69. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
72. Make a subtraction.
73. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
76. A state in northwestern North America.
79. To some (great or small) extent.
81. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
85. A town in north central Oklahoma.
86. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
87. The food served and eaten at one time.
88. Weapons considered collectively.
91. Large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail.
92. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
96. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
98. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.

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