Crossword Puzzle Number 6874 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
12. (football) Of advancing the ball by throwing it.
16. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
17. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
18. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
19. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
20. Small to medium evergreen dioecious trees of oceanic climates.
22. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
24. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
25. Cheese containing a blue mold.
26. Someone who wastes time.
29. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
33. A city is east central Sweden north northwest of Stockholm.
35. The act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something).
38. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
42. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
44. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
46. The brightest star in Cygnus.
50. Half the width of an em.
51. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
52. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
53. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
56. Rate of revolution of a motor.
57. Yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh.
59. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
60. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
63. (computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
65. Liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned.
66. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
67. Of an angle.
69. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
70. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
71. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
73. Any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC.
75. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
77. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
81. Pertaining to or characteristic of an ammine (an inorganic coordination compound of ammonia and a metallic salt).
84. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
88. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
89. Comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia.
91. Suffering from abulia.
93. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
94. Black tropical American cuckoo.
95. Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire.
97. God of fire.
98. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
99. An informal term for a father.
100. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
101. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
102. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.

DOWN

1. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
2. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
3. A wind from the north.
4. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
5. Proceeding in small stages.
6. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
7. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
8. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
9. The ratio of reflected to incident light.
10. Epithet of Siva.
11. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
12. Fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America.
13. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
14. Powdery starch from certain sago palms.
15. An unforeseen obstacle.
21. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
23. Aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
34. A woman in childbirth or shortly thereafter.
36. Flagellates free-living or parasitic in intestines of birds.
37. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
39. A republic on the Isthmus of Panama.
40. (linguistics) Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings.
41. A person who takes long walks in the country.
43. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
45. An associate degree in nursing.
47. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
48. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
49. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
54. Someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession.
55. Type genus of the Lepismatidae.
58. The organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract.
61. Of or containing iridium.
62. An oral beta blocker (trade name Tenormin) used in treating hypertension and angina.
64. Young bird not yet fledged.
68. A swaggering show of courage.
69. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
72. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
74. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
76. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
78. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
79. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
80. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
82. The template for protein synthesis.
83. A female domestic.
85. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
86. Any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae.
87. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
90. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
92. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
93. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
96. The square of a body of any size of type.

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