Crossword Puzzle Number 6680 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
4. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
9. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
13. A doctor's degree in education.
16. An argument opposed to a proposal.
17. A genus of Indriidae.
18. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
20. (Welsh) Lord of Annwfn (the other world.
22. King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959).
23. Mild cream-colored Dutch cheese shaped in balls.
25. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
27. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
29. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
30. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
34. Be compatible or in accordance with.
36. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
39. A radioactive transuranic element.
41. Any federal law-enforcement officer.
42. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
46. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
48. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
51. God of love and erotic desire.
52. Fruit of the oak tree.
53. German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913).
55. Of or in or relating to the nose.
57. The top line of a hill, mountain, or wave.
58. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
59. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
60. A state in midwestern United States.
61. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
62. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
64. American novelist (1909-1955).
66. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
67. A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.
68. Covered with paving material.
72. Employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words.
73. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
75. A slender double-reed instrument.
77. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
80. Undergo resorption.
83. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
87. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
88. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
90. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
93. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
95. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
96. Advanced in years.
97. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
98. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
99. A light touch or stroke.

DOWN

1. A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge.
2. An Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan.
3. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
4. A decree that prohibits something.
5. The eleventh month of the civil year.
6. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
7. A boy or man.
8. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
9. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
10. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
11. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
12. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
13. Escape, either physically or mentally.
14. An informal term for a father.
15. Two items of the same kind.
21. Any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris.
24. Thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal.
26. (biology) Shed at an early stage of development.
28. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
31. A city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal.
32. Cooked by browning in fat and then simmering in a closed container.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. Highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire.
37. Proboscis worms.
38. Ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth.
40. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
43. A genus of Sterninae.
44. Genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs.
45. A low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water.
47. An androgen (trade names Durabolin or Kabolin) that is used to treat testosterone deficiency or breast cancer or osteoporosis.
49. Abnormally enlarged thyroid gland.
50. A public promotion of some product or service.
54. Mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable.
56. (formerly) A cavalryman armed with a lance.
63. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
65. A green transparent form of beryl.
66. A decree that prohibits something.
69. An associate degree in nursing.
70. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
71. Relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north wind.
74. Lower in esteem.
76. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
78. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
79. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
81. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
82. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
83. Being nine more than ninety.
84. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
85. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
86. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
89. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
91. An informal term for a father.
92. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
94. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.

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