Crossword Puzzle Number 6790 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. A province in north-central China.
9. A Hindu prince or king in India.
13. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
16. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
17. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
18. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
19. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
20. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
21. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
22. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
23. Used of a single unit or thing.
24. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
27. The topmost one of two.
28. Being one more than one.
29. The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal).
30. The quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time.
32. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
33. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
34. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
43. A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
45. West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood.
48. (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.
50. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
52. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
53. Highly seasoned cut of smoked beef.
54. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
55. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
57. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
58. (Old Testament) The guardian archangel of the Jews.
60. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
63. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
64. An insect or other arthropod between molts.
68. Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves.
69. A human fetus whose weight is less than 0.5 kilogram when removed or expelled from the mother's body.
71. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
74. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles.
75. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
76. A farewell remark.
79. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
80. Characteristic of a mob.
84. Floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile).
85. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
89. 10 grams.
90. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
91. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
92. Type genus of the Anatidae.
93. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
94. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
95. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
96. A small cake leavened with yeast.
97. An associate degree in applied science.
98. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.

DOWN

1. British admiral.
2. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
3. Cheap and shoddy.
4. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
5. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
6. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
7. United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927).
8. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
9. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
10. With rapid movements.
11. Preserve of crushed fruit.
12. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
13. Sightlessness (especially because of a structural defect in or the absence of an eye).
14. (baseball) A hit that flies straight out from the batter.
15. Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor.
25. Be unbearably loud.
26. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
28. A workman employed to pack things into containers.
31. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
35. A frequently prescribed sleeping pill (trade name ProSom).
37. The vein in the center of a leaf.
38. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
39. An instance of intense argument (as in bargaining).
40. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
41. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
42. Medieval body armor that covers the chest and back.
44. An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
46. The brightest star in Virgo.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. Someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field.
51. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
56. An excited state of agitation.
59. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
61. Hindu sacred text instructing the Brahmins to perform the Vedic rituals.
62. Any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap.
65. A negative.
66. Having the skin scraped off.
67. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
70. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
72. Mild cream-colored Dutch cheese shaped in balls.
73. A mountain peak in the Saint Elias Range in the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada (19,850 feet high).
77. (informal) Exceptionally good.
78. The capital and largest city of Japan.
81. The content of cognition.
82. God of love and erotic desire.
83. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
86. An argument opposed to a proposal.
87. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
88. A light touch or stroke.

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