Crossword Puzzle Number 7965 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
5. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
9. A female domestic.
13. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
16. The front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. A French abbot.
19. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
20. Shattered or torn up or torn apart violently as by e.g. wind or lightning or explosive.
21. A motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame.
22. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
23. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
24. To put down by force or authority.
28. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
29. Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement.
32. The sound like water splashing.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
36. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
37. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
38. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
43. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
46. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
47. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
48. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
50. The capital of Western Samoa.
52. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
54. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
56. The widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic.
57. Waterproofed canvas.
58. Slightly wet.
60. Antihypertensive drug (trade name Aldomet) used in the treatment of high blood pressure.
62. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon.
63. A former French unit of area.
64. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
65. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
66. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
67. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
72. A Loloish language.
73. Spanish poet and dramatist (1898-1936).
74. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
75. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
77. A river in eastern France.
80. Thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane.
83. A band around the collar of a garment.
87. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
88. Used improperly or excessively especially drugs.
90. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
91. A vest pocket to hold a pocket watch.
94. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
96. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
97. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
98. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
99. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
100. Material used to daub walls.

DOWN

1. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
2. Wild goose having white adult plumage.
3. Of or relating to the Sinhalese languages.
4. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
5. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
6. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
7. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
8. Liquid excretory product.
9. A woman of refinement.
10. Lower in esteem.
11. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
12. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
13. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
14. Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain.
15. A reddish brown dye used especially on hair.
25. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
26. A genus of Ploceidae.
27. A volcanic island republic in Melanesia.
30. A local computer network for communication between computers.
31. The cry made by sheep.
33. An Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374).
34. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
41. Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945).
42. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
44. An electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow.
45. (usually followed by `of') Having capacity or ability.
49. A unit of potential equal to a thousand volts.
51. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
53. Enter into a list of prospective jurors.
55. Having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation.
59. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
61. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
68. Late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers.
69. Correction by erasing.
70. A Nilotic language.
71. The stipend assigned by a cathedral to a canon.
72. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
76. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
78. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
79. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
81. A slender double-reed instrument.
82. Containing or filled with salt.
83. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
84. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
85. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
86. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
89. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
92. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
93. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
95. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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