Crossword Puzzle Number 8044 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The airforce of Great Britain.
4. A group of countries in special alliance.
8. In or of the present month.
12. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
16. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
17. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
18. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
19. A primeval personification of air and breath.
20. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
21. A violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightening.
23. Any plant of the genus Bergenia.
25. Type genus of the Amiidae.
27. Large toothed frog of South and Central America resembling the bullfrog.
29. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
30. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
32. An ache localized in the middle or inner ear.
34. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
37. A club that is used as a weapon.
39. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
40. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
41. Malicious burning to destroy property.
43. A motorboat with an open deck or a half deck.
47. The act of scanning.
51. Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers.
52. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
54. A resident of Utah.
56. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
57. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
59. An enclosed space.
61. A card recording an employee's starting and quitting times each work day.
63. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
64. Having a back or backing, usually of a specified type.
66. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
67. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
69. A person to whom money is paid.
70. In bed.
72. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
75. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
76. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
83. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
86. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
89. A seaport in northwestern Italy.
91. Having or exerting a malignant influence.
93. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
94. Employed in accomplishing something.
96. (Sumerian) Sun god.
98. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
99. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
100. Any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers.
101. A small constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cygnus and Draco.
102. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
103. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.

DOWN

1. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
2. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
3. Of or relating to Fabianism.
4. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
5. Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit.
6. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
7. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
8. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
9. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
10. (of the more skilled contestants) Selectively arranged in the draw for position a tournament so that they meet each other in later rounds.
11. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
12. (Greek mythology) An Athenian inventor who built the Labyrinth of Minos.
13. Of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion.
14. The German state.
15. Related on the mother's side.
22. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
24. Small genus of hairy herbs with yellow flowers.
26. At full speed.
28. American novelist noted for children's books (1832-1888).
31. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
33. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
35. A department of Greece in the central Peloponnese.
36. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
38. A member of the Uniat Church.
42. A plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime.
44. Someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions.
45. Type genus of the family Cypraeidae.
46. Telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle.
48. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. Censure severely or angrily.
53. A light touch or stroke.
55. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
58. Of or relating to a hair.
60. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
62. Tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly.
65. A badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together).
68. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
71. A small cake leavened with yeast.
73. The quantity contained in a keg.
74. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
77. Eliminate from the body.
78. American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
79. United States choreographer noted for his use of African elements (born in 1931).
80. Everyone except the clergy.
81. Being nine more than ninety.
82. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
84. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
85. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
87. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
88. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
90. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
92. Of inferior or mixed breed.
95. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
97. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.

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