Crossword Puzzle Number 6839 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
4. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
9. The organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract.
13. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
16. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
17. An ordered reference standard.
18. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
20. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
21. An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.
22. A three-tone Chadic language.
23. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
24. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
26. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
28. The chief source of beryllium.
30. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
31. Constituting or relating to a tail.
33. (botany) Relating to or attached to the axis.
37. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
42. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
46. Half the width of an em.
47. A doctor's degree in religion.
49. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
50. Informal terms for a human head.
53. Small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail.
54. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
55. Inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion.
57. A proportion multiplied by 100.
58. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Cataflam).
60. Discharge from the external ear.
63. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
64. Muslim name for God.
66. The most northwestern Hawaiian island (beyond Kauai).
67. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
68. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
70. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
72. Bearing in mind.
73. Going out or away or of the past.
77. Sour or bitter in taste.
80. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
86. A round bump on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone.
89. Refuse to acknowledge.
91. An associate degree in applied science.
92. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
93. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
95. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
96. A transuranic element.
97. Either extremity of something that has length.
98. United States golfer who won many major golf tournaments (born in 1912).
99. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
100. Towards the side away from the wind.

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1. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
2. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
3. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
4. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
5. A fraudulent business scheme.
6. Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments.
7. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
8. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
9. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
11. (historically) A member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire.
12. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
13. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
14. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
15. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
25. Hypothyroidism marked by dry skin and swellings around lips and nose as well as mental deterioration.
27. Flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States.
29. Being one more than fifty.
32. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
34. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
35. The craniometric point in the region of the sphenoid fontanelle.
36. In a series.
38. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
39. The Creator.
40. A city in northern India.
41. The third day of the week.
43. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
44. French mime famous for his sad-faced clown (born in 1923).
45. Long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers.
48. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
51. New Zealand conifer.
52. A light medieval helmet with a slit for vision.
56. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
59. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
61. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
62. Father of the storm gods Marut.
65. Of or relating to or characteristic of the republic of Haiti or its people.
69. A line made of twisted fibers or threads.
71. An unforeseen obstacle.
74. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
75. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
76. French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834).
77. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
78. Tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears.
79. A town in north central Oklahoma.
81. A globular water bottle used in Asia.
82. Made of fir or pine.
83. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
84. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
85. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
87. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
88. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
90. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
94. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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