Crossword Puzzle Number 7989 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
4. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
13. Of southern Europe.
16. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
17. Lower in esteem.
18. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. Arranged in or consisting of laminae.
22. (Spanish) Saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken.
24. An accidental happening.
25. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
26. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
30. Being two more than forty.
32. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
35. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
39. Distant but within sight.
43. Tag the base runner to get him out.
45. Cause to move back by force or influence.
47. Any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body.
48. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
51. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
52. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
55. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
57. Someone new to a field or activity.
58. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
60. Liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food.
61. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
62. City in northeast Pakistan.
63. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
65. Not reflecting light.
66. A negative.
68. The capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan.
70. Ancient Athenian philosopher.
72. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
75. A preparation used in cleaning something.
77. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
78. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
81. A loose cloak with a hood.
85. English monk and scholar (672-735).
87. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
91. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
92. Slightly sour to the taste.
94. German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913).
95. British informal term.
96. A city in northwestern Syria.
97. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.
99. The act of scanning.
100. Used of a single unit or thing.
101. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
102. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
103. Any branch of Shinto other than Kokka.

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1. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
2. The basic unit of money in Iran.
3. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
4. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. 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.
7. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
8. Type genus of the Nepidae.
9. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
10. Become less tense.
11. With self-possession (especially in times of stress).
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A fraudulent business scheme.
15. An informal term for a father.
21. A message received and understood that reduces the recipient's uncertainty.
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule.
28. A movement that is a response to a stimulus but is not oriented with respect to the source of stimulation.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Region of western Asia Minor colonized by Ancient Greeks.
33. A short plaid coat made of made of thick woolen material.
34. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
36. An apparatus for exposing something to the air (as sewage).
37. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
38. (of a liquid) Treated by having air passed or bubbled through it for purification.
40. An interpreter and guide in the Near East.
41. Place a value on.
42. A cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent that acts on nervous tissue and the physiological response.
44. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
49. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
50. Thick like cream.
53. A member of a people in India living in Orissa and neighboring areas.
54. The sign language used in the United States.
56. A proportion multiplied by 100.
59. The visual property of something that shines with reflected light.
64. The highest point of something.
67. Of or relating to or functioning as a phrase.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
69. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
71. The quality of being lax and neglectful.
72. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
73. A passage with access only at one end.
74. Type and sole genus of the family Albulidae.
76. Filled with a great quantity.
77. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
79. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
80. Of or relating the the Vedas or to the ancient Sanskrit in which they were written.
81. Lacking in rigor or strictness.
82. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
83. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
84. In bed.
86. Affected manners intended to impress others.
88. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
89. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
90. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
93. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
98. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

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