Crossword Puzzle Number 763 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A period of time spent sleeping.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
13. A small piece of cloth.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
18. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
19. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
20. Lost temporarily.
22. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
24. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
25. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
27. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
29. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion.
32. A member of an ancient people living east of Babylonia as early as 4000 BC.
34. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
35. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
37. A feeling of intense anger.
38. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
41. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
43. (trademark) A form of amphetamine.
47. A major waterfall in southern Africa.
49. Jordan's port.
51. Sleep in a convenient place.
52. (Greek mythology) God of love.
53. Avoid and stay away from deliberately.
56. (Arthurian legend) One of the knights of the Round Table.
58. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
60. The act of escaping physically.
62. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
63. A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language.
65. A block of absorbent material saturated with ink.
66. The month following October and preceding December.
67. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
68. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
72. Selling or related to selling direct to the consumer.
75. (informal) Of the highest quality.
77. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
79. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
80. The airforce of Great Britain.
82. A fraudulent business scheme.
84. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
87. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
91. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
94. A basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression).
96. Shaped like a cube.
98. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
99. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
100. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
102. The entire physical structure of an organism (especially an animal or human being).
103. The basic unit of money in Iran.
104. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
105. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
106. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
107. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

DOWN

1. A town in southwestern Idaho.
2. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
3. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
4. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
5. Expel, as of gases and odors.
6. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
7. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
8. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
9. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
10. Troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace.
11. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
12. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
13. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
14. Traveling by foot.
15. The 3rd planet from the sun.
21. (Greek mythology) The father of Odysseus.
23. The eighth month of the Hindu calendar.
26. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
28. Of legislation.
30. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
31. A bachelor's degree in religion.
33. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
36. United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-1964).
39. Originally Old World rats now distributed worldwide.
40. A muscle that contracts while another relaxes.
42. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
44. Perennial plants resembling yucca.
45. One of two or more atoms with the same atomic number but with different numbers of neutrons.
46. (rare) Of or occurring in summer.
48. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
50. English monk and scholar (672-735).
54. A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another.
55. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
57. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
59. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
61. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
64. Type genus of the Otariidae.
70. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
71. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
72. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
73. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
74. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
76. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
78. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
81. A sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow.
83. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
85. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
86. Report or maintain.
88. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
89. A French abbot.
90. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
92. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
93. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
95. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
97. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
98. How long something has existed.
101. A doctor's degree in optometry.

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