Crossword Puzzle Number 6686 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
9. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
13. One millionth of a gram.
16. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
17. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
18. A French abbot.
19. A branch of the Tai languages.
20. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
21. The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.
22. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
23. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
24. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
26. Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910).
27. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
29. Of a pale purple color.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. A game played with young children.
38. Make difficult to perceive by sight.
41. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
44. A state in New England.
45. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
47. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. A city in southeastern Sweden.
49. A festival marked by merrymaking and processions.
53. Money in the form of bills or coins.
55. Chief port of Yemen.
56. Diuretic (trade name Edecrin) used to treat edema.
58. Of or relating to or characteristic of Texas or its residents.
60. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
61. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
62. (Greek mythology) The Muse of lyric and love poetry.
63. One who accepts an offer.
64. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
65. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
66. The longest division of geological time.
68. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
72. A resort city in western Florida.
75. Used improperly or excessively especially drugs.
77. A fragment of brick used as a weapon.
81. A flexible container with a single opening.
82. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
83. Selected as the best.
87. (Phoenician and Philistine) God of agriculture and the earth.
91. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
95. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
96. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
97. A cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair.
98. A notable achievement.
99. Scottish theologian who founded Scottish Presbyterianism and wrote a history of the reformation in Scotland (1514-1572).
100. Double-walled stage of the embryo succeeding the blastula.
101. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
2. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
3. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
4. An implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end.
5. Of or relating to alga.
6. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
7. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
8. The general activity of selling.
9. A seat for the rider of a horse.
10. Be obedient to.
11. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
12. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
13. Too numerous to be counted.
14. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
15. Shift from one side of the ship to the other.
25. Being one more than one hundred.
28. Device that has a sheet perforated with printing through which ink or paint can pass to create a printed pattern.
30. Free from error.
33. Cheap or pretentious display.
34. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
36. Pearl oysters.
37. A deciduous tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in the southeastern United States.
39. Write upon.
40. Leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (1897-1975).
42. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
43. (informal) Of the highest quality.
46. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
50. A rapid bustling commotion.
51. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
52. A farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced.
54. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
57. British informal term.
59. A member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington.
67. Tag the base runner to get him out.
69. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
70. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
71. A loose robe.
73. Informal terms for a mother.
74. Large genus of terrestrial ferns of tropics and subtropics.
75. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
76. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
78. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
79. Type genus of the Cimicidae.
80. Related to or having filaments especially across a field of view.
84. A jaunty rhythm in music.
85. South African prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931).
86. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
88. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
89. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
90. A quantity of no importance.
92. A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface.
93. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
94. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
95. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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