Crossword Puzzle Number 8031 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving.
4. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
8. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
12. Gold or silver wire thread.
16. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
17. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
19. A genus of European owls.
20. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
21. A fisherman who uses a hook and line.
23. The mistake of not following suit when able to do so.
24. (Spanish) Saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken.
26. The amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full.
27. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
28. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
30. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
31. The square of a body of any size of type.
33. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
36. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
40. A doctor's degree in education.
42. Surpass in speed.
46. The time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment.
47. Remove from memory or existence.
50. Identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal.
52. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
53. A position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it.
54. A person of mean disposition.
55. An argument opposed to a proposal.
56. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
57. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
59. Full of zest or vigor.
61. An associate degree in nursing.
62. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
64. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high).
65. A technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing).
66. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
67. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
69. (Judaism) Not conforming to dietary laws.
70. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
77. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
79. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
80. Letters and packages that are transported by aircraft.
83. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
85. Little known Kamarupan languages.
89. Baby bed with high sides.
90. White grape grown especially in the Loire Valley in France.
93. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
94. United States poet and critic (1899-1979).
95. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
96. Again but in a new or different way.
98. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
99. One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.
100. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
101. An informal term for a father.
102. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

DOWN

1. Hit hard.
2. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
3. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
4. British statesman and leader of the Labour party who instituted the welfare state in England (1883-1967).
5. Water buffalo of the Philippines.
6. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
7. The twelfth month of the civil year.
8. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
9. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
10. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. A long slender cigar.
13. A person who makes use of a thing.
14. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
15. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
22. An honorary law degree.
25. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
29. A fit of shivering.
32. A genus of Cricetidae.
34. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
35. The ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary.
37. French writer who collaborated with his brother Edmond de Goncourt on many books (1830-1870).
38. A group of mostly extinct primitive bony fishes characterized by armor-like bony scales.
39. The finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided.
41. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
43. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
44. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
45. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
48. A cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg.
49. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
51. Serving as an essential component.
58. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
60. Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.
63. A small cake leavened with yeast.
68. After the expected or usual time.
71. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
72. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
73. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
74. The largest Greek island in the Mediterranean.
75. To fix or set securely or deeply.
76. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
78. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
81. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
82. The goddess of the moon.
84. A Russian river.
86. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
87. Rounded like an egg.
88. Avatar of Vishnu.
91. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
92. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
97. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.

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