Crossword Puzzle Number 6817 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. Full of flavor.
9. By bad luck.
13. An informal term for a father.
16. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
18. The closing section of a musical composition.
19. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
20. Less than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
21. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
22. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
23. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
24. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
26. Derived by copying something else.
28. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
29. Unknown god.
30. The range within which a voice can be heard.
33. Someone engaged in or experienced in warfare.
35. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
38. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
41. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
44. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
45. A state in east central United States.
48. Oblong cream puff.
51. A disreputable vagrant.
53. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.
55. A reddish brown dye used especially on hair.
56. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
58. North American bluebirds.
59. The site of an archeological exploration.
60. Any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent.
62. Used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles.
65. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
66. That is to say.
68. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
69. The magnetic field strength 1 cm from a unit magnetic pole.
71. An uproarious party.
72. A quantity of no importance.
76. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
78. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
87. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
88. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
92. A newt in its terrestrial stage of development.
93. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
94. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
96. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
97. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
98. American dwarf fan palms.
99. A Hindu prince or king in India.
100. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.

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1. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
2. Drive away by crying "shoo!".
3. A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback.
4. A vast Asian region of Russia.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information.
7. Chief god of the Rig-Veda.
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
10. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
11. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
13. Australasian kingfishers.
14. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
15. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
25. Italian poet (1569-1625).
27. Of or relating to chaetae (setae or bristles).
29. A medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth.
31. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
32. Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles.
34. Supply with notes.
36. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
37. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
39. Island in West Indies.
40. Any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod.
42. The regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale.
43. Tropical American flat-jointed prickly pear.
46. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
47. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Ansaid) that is administered only orally.
49. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.
50. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
52. A street of small shops (especially in Orient).
54. (Scotland) A landowner.
57. Disabled in the feet or legs.
61. Genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers.
63. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
64. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
67. Jordan's port.
70. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
73. Jordan's port.
74. Wild and menacing.
75. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
76. A public promotion of some product or service.
77. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
79. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
80. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
81. A large number or amount.
84. (archaic) A fitting reward.
85. A lyric poet.
86. Type genus of the Anatidae.
89. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
90. Extremely pleasing.
91. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
95. Informal terms for a mother.

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