Crossword Puzzle Number 7498 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
13. A cgs unit of work or energy.
16. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
17. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
18. A blind god.
19. (Irish) The sea personified.
20. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
22. Small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail.
24. Reason by deduction.
26. South African mongoose-like viverrine having a face like a lemur and only four toes.
28. Deeply moved.
30. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
31. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
34. Any spiny succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World.
37. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
38. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
39. American novelist (1909-1955).
40. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
42. The doctrine that ideas are the only reality.
47. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
48. Reduced in size as by squeezing together.
51. Belonging to some prior time.
52. By bad luck.
53. Change into an ester.
54. A sudden abrupt pull.
55. An actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression.
57. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
60. Black tropical American cuckoo.
61. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
63. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
65. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
66. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
69. Being nine more than forty.
72. (Old Testament) A son of Jacob and a forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
75. Shattered or torn up or torn apart violently as by e.g. wind or lightning or explosive.
76. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
77. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
79. At a previous time.
82. The absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter.
84. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
88. Any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects.
89. Roman emperor and adoptive son of Nerva.
91. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
92. A principle or condition that customarily governs behavior.
93. Structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure.
95. Type genus of the Majidae.
96. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
97. Employed in accomplishing something.
98. Not fake or counterfeit.
99. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
100. An associate degree in applied science.

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1. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
2. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
3. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
4. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. A strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines).
7. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
8. Scottish dramatist and novelist.
9. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
10. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. A city in Lombardy on the Po River.
13. Escape, either physically or mentally.
14. A toxic protein extracted from castor beans.
15. Relatively large in size or number or extent.
21. The act of giving a false appearance.
23. A quantity of no importance.
25. Australasian kingfishers.
27. A poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare.
29. Wig for men fashionable in 17th-18th centuries.
32. Terminate before completion, as of a computer process, a mission, etc..
33. Poor enough to need help from others.
35. Semi-parasitic herb with purple or white or pink flowers.
36. The art of making and decorating pottery.
41. The sacred city of Lamaism.
43. An unsuccessful ending.
44. The basic unit of money in Peru.
45. Any of numerous spiny large-headed broad-mouthed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes.
46. Large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit.
49. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.
50. Toward the mouth or oral region.
56. The limits within which something can be effective.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
59. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
62. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
64. A great raja.
67. Thrown into a state of agitated confusion.
68. A woman's sleeveless undergarment.
69. A strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines).
70. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
71. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
73. (chemistry) Being or containing an acid.
74. Little known Kamarupan languages.
78. A Hindu prince or king in India.
80. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia.
81. The general activity of selling.
83. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
85. Largest known toad species.
86. God of love and erotic desire.
87. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
90. Tag the base runner to get him out.
94. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.

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