Crossword Puzzle Number 7665 (Large Grid)

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1. The federal department that administers federal program dealing with better housing and urban renewal.
4. Type genus of the Sittidae.
9. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
13. A polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables.
16. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
17. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
18. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
19. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
20. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
22. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained.
24. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
25. The sixth month of the civil year.
26. A feeling of anger caused by being offended.
28. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position.
29. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
30. Having an owner.
32. A state in New England.
34. A port city in southwestern Iran.
41. Torn down and broken up.
42. The largest city of Cameroon.
45. A state in midwestern United States.
46. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
47. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.
49. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
51. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
52. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
54. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
57. Water frozen in the solid state.
60. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
61. God of wealth and love.
63. Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
66. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
67. A public promotion of some product or service.
69. A member of a people in India living in Orissa and neighboring areas.
73. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
75. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
76. 16th President of the United States.
79. Of or relating to or characteristic of Uganda or its people.
81. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
82. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
86. (Greek mythology) The first woman.
89. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
90. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
91. A tributary of the Rio Grande.
93. Chief port of Yemen.
94. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
95. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
96. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
97. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
98. The residue that remains when something is burned.

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1. A member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California.
2. Employed in accomplishing something.
3. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
4. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
5. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
6. The subject matter of a conversation or discussion.
7. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
8. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
9. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
10. A feeling of intense anger.
11. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
12. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
13. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
14. Fermented juice (of grapes especially).
15. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
21. Amphibians that resemble lizards.
23. A potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine.
27. A bachelor's degree in religion.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
33. A state in the eastern United States.
35. An Iranian language spoken in Pakistan and Iran and Afghanistan and Russia and the Persian gulf.
36. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
37. A prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor.
38. A Chadic language spoken in the Mandara mountains in Cameroon.
39. A river in central Brazil that flows generally northward (with many falls) to join the Tocantins River.
40. Small family of usually tropical butterflies.
43. Genus of tropical trees.
44. Walk clumsily and with a bounce.
48. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
50. Of or relating to or attended by putrefaction.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
55. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
56. (heraldry) Rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile.
58. A quantity of no importance.
59. An oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments.
62. A semiautomatic rifle.
64. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
65. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going".
68. Wild llama.
69. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
70. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
71. Equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged.
72. Firmly fastened or secured against opening.
74. Tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes.
75. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
77. Of or in or relating to the nose.
78. Any taillike structure.
80. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
83. Type genus of the Amiidae.
84. South African term for `boss'.
85. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
87. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
88. Used of a single unit or thing.
92. A Russian river.

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