Crossword Puzzle Number 6828 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
4. A long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs.
9. A state in the western United States.
13. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose.
18. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
19. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
20. Whip scorpions.
22. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
25. Of or relating to neuroglia.
26. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
28. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
29. English essayist (1775-1834).
30. Blood disorder in which there is excess fluid volume compared with the cell volume of the blood.
32. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
33. Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle).
36. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
40. Remote in manner.
43. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
45. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
47. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
48. North American yellow-breasted songbirds.
50. A state in midwestern United States.
51. The business of providing services to tourists.
52. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
56. A branch of the Tai languages.
57. In a resentful manner.
59. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
61. (Babylonian) The sky god.
62. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
63. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
64. Being two more than ninety.
65. (Hinduism or Buddhism) A sacred word or syllable repeated in prayer or meditation.
67. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
70. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
71. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
73. Of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory.
77. Carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal.
79. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
81. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
82. The act of damaging something or someone.
85. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
88. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
91. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
93. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
96. An awkward stupid person.
97. Chief port of Yemen.
98. A French abbot.
100. Tropical Asian starlings.
101. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
102. English monk and scholar (672-735).
103. A small cake leavened with yeast.
104. By bad luck.
105. A commercially prepared mixture of dry ingredients.

DOWN

1. The sound of laughing.
2. At or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time.
3. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
4. A blank leaf in the front of back of a book.
5. A sharp projection on an edge or surface.
6. An aperture or hole opening into a bodily cavity.
7. A motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities.
8. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
9. Remove the clip from.
10. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping.
11. Small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color.
12. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
13. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
14. Being three more than fifty.
15. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
21. Any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots.
23. The eleventh month of the civil year.
24. Included seven times in every 19 years.
27. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
31. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
34. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
35. An expressway in a German-speaking country.
37. Of or relating to located near the iris of the eye.
38. Of or relating to or characteristic of Kashmir or its people or culture.
39. Pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia.
41. Arranged in or consisting of laminae.
42. Ostentatiously lofty in style.
44. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
46. The fifth of the seven canonical hours.
49. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
53. English writer and caricaturist (1872-1956).
54. A stock exchange in New York.
55. Marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude.
58. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
60. Being ten more than fifty.
66. Small genus of southeastern Asian tropics.
67. A blank leaf in the front of back of a book.
68. Genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns.
69. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
72. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
74. 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.
75. Not divisible by two.
76. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
77. Being one more than two.
78. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. Extremely pleasing.
83. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
84. In bed.
86. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
87. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
88. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
89. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
90. The second largest city in Tunisia.
92. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
94. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
95. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
99. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.

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