Crossword Puzzle Number 6990 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A master's degree in fine arts.
4. Two items of the same kind.
8. The sixth month of the civil year.
12. Uttering in an irritated tone.
16. A resource.
17. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
18. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn.
19. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
20. A fraudulent business scheme.
22. Undergo resorption.
24. Used in combination.
25. A Loloish language.
26. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
27. Lacking natural ease.
28. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
33. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
34. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
36. Not in good physical or mental health.
41. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
43. Similar to the color of a ripe orange.
46. The handle of a weapon or tool.
50. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
51. A breast-shaped mass of padding worn in a brassiere.
52. Occurring or payable every year.
53. A unit of pressure.
55. A state in east central United States.
56. Being one more than fifty.
58. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. An honorary degree in science.
65. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
66. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
67. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
69. A red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein.
71. (Babylonian) Goddess of healing and consort of Ninurta.
72. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
74. English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718).
75. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
76. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
77. Being in a tense state.
78. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
81. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
83. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
88. Type genus of the Gavidae.
92. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
95. A Hindu prince or king in India.
97. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
98. Up to the present time.
99. Squash bugs.
100. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
101. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
102. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
103. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
104. A small cake leavened with yeast.
105. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.

DOWN

1. A mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water.
2. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
3. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
4. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. A unit of length equal to 3 feet.
6. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
7. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
8. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
9. Any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule.
10. A town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast.
11. Cheap and inferior.
12. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
13. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
14. A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
15. A genus of Ploceidae.
21. The environmental condition.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
31. Tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood.
35. Inefficient in use of time and effort and materials.
37. Floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space.
38. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.
39. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. 100 tambala equal 1 Kwacha.
44. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
45. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
47. Aroused to action.
48. Resembling flame in brilliance or color.
49. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.).
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
57. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
60. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
61. A short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost.
62. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
64. A Mid-Atlantic state.
68. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
70. A drama set to music.
73. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
79. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
80. Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa.
82. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
84. In bed.
85. United States poet and critic (1899-1979).
86. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
87. Fallow deer.
89. Characteristic of false pride.
90. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
91. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
93. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
94. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
96. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).

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