Crossword Puzzle Number 6972 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A boy or man.
5. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
9. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
13. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
16. Capital and largest city of Italy.
17. A sign of something about to happen.
18. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
19. Being one more than two.
20. Employed in accomplishing something.
21. Force or compel somebody to do something.
23. The act of escaping physically.
25. Any admirable quality or attribute.
27. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
29. A primeval personification of air and breath.
30. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
31. A person who acts and gets things done.
33. King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959).
39. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
41. Goat grass.
44. An associate degree in nursing.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
48. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
49. God of fire.
51. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
54. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
55. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
56. Beautiful daughter of Minos and Pasiphae.
60. Trace the shape of.
61. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
62. A doctor's degree in optometry.
63. The (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another.
64. A large number or amount.
66. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
68. Affect with wonder.
69. (Sumerian) God of the air and king of the Sumerian gods.
70. The fifth day of the week.
71. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
74. Advanced in years.
75. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
77. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
79. God of wealth and love.
84. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
88. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
89. Greek mythology.
92. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
94. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
95. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
96. (computer science) A read-only memory chip that can be erased by ultraviolet light and programmed again with new data.
97. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
98. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
99. A young woman making her debut into society.
100. A particular environment or walk of life.
101. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
102. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.

DOWN

1. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible.
2. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).
3. Punish with an arbitrary penalty.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. Seek someone's favor.
6. Expressed by.
7. United States food manufacturer who (with his brother) developed a breakfast cereal of crisp flakes of rolled and toasted wheat and corn.
8. Of or like a feeble old woman.
9. Used of a single unit or thing.
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
12. An associate degree in applied science.
13. (Akkadian) Mother of the gods and consort of Apsu.
14. Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used.
15. Dignified manner or conduct.
22. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
24. Type genus of the Caricaceae.
26. A slight amount or degree of difference.
28. Having cusps or points.
32. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
34. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
35. Capital city of the Piemonte region of northwestern Italy.
36. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
37. Make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing.
38. Having life or vigor or spirit.
40. Omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next).
42. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
43. Swedish soprano who toured the United States under the management of P. T. Barnum (1820-1887).
46. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
52. A strip or stripe of a contrasting color or material.
53. A quantity of no importance.
57. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
58. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
59. A large fleet.
65. Genus of tropical hardwood timber trees.
66. Seek someone's favor.
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
72. United States abolitionist (1786-1865).
73. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
76. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
78. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
80. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
81. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
82. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
83. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
85. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
86. (of molten metal or glass) Formed by pouring or pressing into a mold n 1.
87. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
90. The month following March and preceding May.
91. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
93. A rapid escape (as by criminals).

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