Crossword Puzzle Number 6780 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Liveliness and energy.
4. Make secure by lashing.
8. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping.
12. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
16. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
17. A unit of length equal to 1760 yards.
18. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
19. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
20. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
21. Type genus of the Dipsacaceae.
23. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
24. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
26. Big-eyed scad.
28. Deciduous small trees or shrubs of China and eastern North America.
31. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
33. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
35. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
37. German composer (1833-1897).
40. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
41. Loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging.
45. A person forced to flee from home or country.
46. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
50. A nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right.
51. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
53. Earlier a god.
54. Respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing.
56. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
57. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
58. Family based on male descent.
60. The antiparticle of a muon.
63. Put into a rage.
67. A medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists.
68. English monk and scholar (672-735).
70. Grind together, of teeth.
71. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
74. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
81. Lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance.
84. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
86. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
87. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
88. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
91. A small byte.
93. Being two more than fifty.
94. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
95. Any competition.
97. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
98. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
99. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
100. Very dark black.
101. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.

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1. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
2. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
3. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
4. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
5. A long narrow natural elevation or striation.
6. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
7. Pepsi Cola is a trademarked cola.
8. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
9. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
10. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
11. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
12. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
13. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
14. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
15. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
22. A kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface).
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
29. A long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes.
30. A man who serves as a sailor.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
34. Occurring at or dependent on a particular season.
36. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
38. French writer best known for his biographies (1885-1967).
39. Make crunching noises.
42. A Chinese god worshipped in the form of an idol.
43. A large fleet.
44. The act of scanning.
48. A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara.
49. Relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco.
52. A Finnish steam bath.
55. Large Indian antelope.
59. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
61. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
62. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
64. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
65. Having deserted a cause or principle.
66. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
69. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
72. One thousand grams.
73. Whiten with Blanco.
75. Someone who asks a question.
76. City in Sudan.
77. After noon.
78. American dramatist (1928- ).
79. A major city of northeastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas river.
80. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
82. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
83. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
85. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
86. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
89. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
90. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
92. A yearning for something or to do something.
96. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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