Crossword Puzzle Number 7722 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
4. A river in southeastern France.
9. A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Used of a single unit or thing.
17. The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.
18. French couturier whose first collection in 1947 created a style (tight bodice and narrow waist and flowing pleated skirt) that became known as the New Look (1905-1957).
19. Noisy talk.
20. (Babylonian) Consort of Marduk.
24. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
25. A restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle.
26. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
27. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
28. Belonging to some prior time.
30. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
32. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
33. A river in central Brazil that flows generally northward (with many falls) to join the Tocantins River.
35. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
37. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
38. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
41. Being one more than ninety.
44. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
49. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
50. Estrangement from god.
51. Wearing or provided with clothing.
52. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
53. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
55. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
56. A genus of Ploceidae.
59. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
60. Dried bark of various magnolias.
62. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
63. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
65. Of or relating to or involving an area.
66. Remove the claws from (a cat).
68. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
69. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
70. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
73. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng.
77. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
78. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
81. A comic verse of irregular measure.
83. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
87. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
89. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
91. Vietnamese New Year.
92. Any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape.
93. A small cake leavened with yeast.
95. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
96. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
97. United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902).
98. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
99. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.

DOWN

1. Atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility.
2. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
3. Mouselike jumping rodent.
4. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
5. A ray of sunlight.
6. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
7. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
8. Half the width of an em.
9. The capital and largest city of Japan.
10. Large Indian antelope.
11. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Carina.
12. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
13. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
14. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
15. Jordan's port.
21. A region whose eastern part is Bangladesh and western part is included in India.
22. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
23. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
29. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
31. A flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions.
34. An order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae.
36. Being ten more than one hundred thirty.
39. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
40. Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair.
42. Class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on part or all of the surface during some part of the life cycle.
43. A dispenser that produces a chemical vapor to be inhaled in order to relieve nasal congestion.
45. Accuse formally of a crime.
46. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
47. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
48. (formerly) A writing tablet made of slate.
54. Cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever.
57. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
58. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
61. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
64. Capable of wounding.
67. A Chadic language spoken in the Mandara mountains in Cameroon.
68. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
71. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
72. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
74. A person in desperate straits.
75. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
76. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
79. In bed.
80. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
82. Any of various small biting flies.
84. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
85. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
86. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
88. The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
90. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
94. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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