Crossword Puzzle Number 6864 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
4. A minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem.
9. Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts.
13. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
16. The fatty flesh of eel.
17. Of or like a cecum.
18. A feeling of intense anger.
19. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
20. An authoritative person who divines the future.
22. A serious (sometimes fatal) infection transmitted by the bite of an infected rat flea (especially bubonic plague).
24. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
25. A machine or person that adds.
26. Loss of the ability to swallow.
29. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
30. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
31. (comparative of `near') Being the one of two that is less distant in space.
33. (Brit) An area of open or forested country.
37. Not out.
42. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
46. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
48. Any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice.
50. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
51. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
53. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
55. Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers.
60. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
61. An investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods.
62. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
64. The act of rewriting something.
66. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
68. A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
69. Order of mammals having few or no teeth including.
71. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
73. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
78. A city in east central Texas.
81. Deadly or sinister.
84. Russian country house.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
88. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
90. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
91. (Irish) The sea personified.
92. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
93. Able to act at will.
94. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
95. A doctor's degree in education.
96. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
97. A primeval personification of air and breath.
98. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.

DOWN

1. Type genus of the Nepidae.
2. A student who studies excessively.
3. Submerged freshwater perennials.
4. Flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds.
5. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
6. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
7. Informal terms for a mother.
8. First in order of importance.
9. (informal) Exceptionally good.
10. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
11. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
12. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
13. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
14. Complacently or inanely foolish.
15. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
21. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
23. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
27. Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war).
28. A source of danger.
32. Late time of life.
34. Caught as if in a mesh.
35. Flattery intended to persuade.
36. Small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe.
38. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
39. Before noon.
40. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
41. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
45. (of hair) "auburn hair".
47. A feast day and the seven days following it.
49. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
52. Bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies.
56. Any plant of the genus Eryngium.
57. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
58. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
59. Similar or related in quality or character.
63. Jordan's port.
65. A city and port in northern Jutland.
66. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
67. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
70. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
72. (archeology) A mound of domestic refuse containing shells and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric settlement.
74. Antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA.
75. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
76. God of wealth and love.
77. Having the head uncovered.
79. In bed.
80. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
82. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
83. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
85. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
86. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
87. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
89. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.

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