Crossword Puzzle Number 7872 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. Bar temporarily.
9. A genus of Strigidae.
13. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
18. Large American feline resembling a lion.
19. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
20. Relating to or characteristic of the state or people of Alaska.
22. Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth.
24. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
25. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
26. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
29. Having development checked or reversed.
30. Situated at or extending to the side.
32. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
34. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
35. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
37. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
38. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
39. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
41. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
46. An elevated geological formation.
48. Small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests.
50. The sixth month of the civil year.
52. A sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived.
54. A city of central China.
55. Something causes misery or death.
56. (prefix) Within.
57. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
59. Canadian writer (born in Sri Lanka in 1943).
61. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
62. The habitation of wild animals.
64. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
65. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
66. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
68. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
70. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
71. Small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered.
73. A fraudulent business scheme.
74. Torn down and broken up.
77. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
80. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
83. Away from the mouth or oral region.
86. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
90. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
91. Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments.
92. Not widely known.
93. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
96. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
97. Advanced in years.
98. Small family of usually tropical butterflies.
99. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.

DOWN

1. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
2. Offering fun and gaiety.
3. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
4. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. Ruffed grouse.
7. Before noon.
8. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
9. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
10. Of or relating to o occurring in a tube such as e.g. the fallopian tube or eustachian tube.
11. A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.
12. The chance to speak.
13. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
14. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
15. Relating to or of the nature of a zone.
21. A performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music.
23. United States composer of musical comedies (especially in collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II and with Lorenz Hart) (1902-1979).
27. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
28. A loose cloak with a hood.
31. The bill in a restaurant.
33. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
36. Small genus of dwarf orchids.
40. A mountain in south central Alaska.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. Pain resulting from rapid change in pressure.
44. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
45. The upper branches and leaves of a tree.
47. Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945).
49. Obvious and dull.
51. An analgesic for mild pain.
53. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
58. An industrial city is southeastern Austria.
60. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
67. A green transparent form of beryl.
68. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
69. Any of numerous plants of the genus Begonia grown for their attractive glossy asymmetrical leaves and colorful flowers in usually terminal cymes or racemes.
72. Parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates.
73. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
75. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
76. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
78. Mated sexually.
79. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
80. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
81. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
82. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
84. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
85. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
87. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
88. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
89. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
94. A public promotion of some product or service.
95. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.

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