Crossword Puzzle Number 7139 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
8. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
12. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
16. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
17. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
18. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
19. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
20. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
21. An informal term for a father.
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
23. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
24. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
26. (trade name) A brand of car polish.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
33. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
37. Any plant of the genus Erica.
40. A large and imposing house.
44. Stalk of a moss capsule.
48. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
49. Any igneous rock with crystals embedded in a finer groundmass of minerals.
50. The virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
51. A preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing.
52. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
53. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
57. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
59. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
60. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
61. The event of something ending.
62. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
63. A bitter alkaloid found in coffee and tea that is responsible for their stimulating effects.
66. In an unnatural eery manner.
69. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
70. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
71. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
74. An awkward stupid person.
76. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
81. A mixer incorporating a coil of wires.
84. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
85. Sister and consort of Izanami.
88. A bachelor's degree in theology.
89. A light carried in the hand.
90. Little known Kamarupan languages.
92. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
93. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
94. A blind god.
95. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
96. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
2. A quantity of no importance.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
5. By bad luck.
6. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
7. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
8. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
9. (combining form) Indicating radiation or radioactivity.
10. An industrial city is southeastern Austria.
11. Not divisible by two.
12. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
13. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
14. A thermionic tube having two electrodes.
15. United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930).
25. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).
27. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
28. A student who crams.
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
32. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
34. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
35. An apparatus for performing a titration.
36. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
38. Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds).
39. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
41. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
42. A long cassock with buttons down the front.
43. Mason wasps.
45. Two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context.
46. United States writer (1871-1900).
47. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
54. A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
55. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
56. United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971).
58. Speak one's opinion without fear or hesitation.
64. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
65. Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition.
66. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
67. In ancient Semitic folklore.
68. Turn pale, as if in fear.
72. A unit of pressure.
73. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
74. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
75. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
76. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
77. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
78. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
79. A heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal.
80. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
81. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
82. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
83. God of love and erotic desire.
86. The facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition.
87. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
91. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.

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