Crossword Puzzle Number 8046 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A couple who both have careers and no children.
5. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
9. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
13. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
16. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
17. (biology) Shed at an early stage of development.
18. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
21. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
23. (usually followed by `with' or used as a combining form) Generously supplied with.
25. Jordan's port.
27. In a vessel with two hulls, an enclosed area between the frames at each side.
29. Greek mythology.
30. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
31. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
32. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
34. Informal terms for a mother.
35. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
40. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
44. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
49. A state in New England.
50. A Nilotic language.
54. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
56. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
59. The state of being irrational.
61. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs.
62. Small genus of delicate mossy bog plants having white or violet flowers.
64. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
65. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
66. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
69. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
70. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
72. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
73. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
74. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
76. A protective covering for a knife or sword.
79. United States writer (1871-1900).
80. The striking of one body against another.
82. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
86. A member of a conference.
88. A fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II.
92. Internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity).
94. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
95. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
96. A French river that flows through the heart of Paris and then northward into the English Channel.
98. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
100. An informal term for a father.
101. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
102. Issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.).
103. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
104. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.

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1. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
2. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
3. Type genus of the Nepidae.
4. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
5. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
6. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
7. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
8. (of eggs) No longer edible.
9. The wool of a sheep or similar animal.
10. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
11. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
12. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
13. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
14. American novelist (1909-1955).
15. An informal term for a father.
22. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
24. Any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
33. Being one more than one hundred.
36. Relating to bees or beekeeping.
37. English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924).
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
41. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
42. Of or relating to or characteristic of Andorra or its people.
43. A soft tufted cord used in embroidery.
45. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
47. Used of decomposing oils or fats.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. A member of the Salish people in northwestern Washington.
53. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
55. The capital of Eritrea.
57. A white trivalent metallic element.
58. Proceed or issue forth, as from a source.
60. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
63. An expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing.
67. A Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board.
68. A copper-nickel alloy with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient.
71. Charge falsely or with malicious intent.
72. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
75. Small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico.
77. Become hard or harder.
78. (ecology) The process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat.
81. A master's degree in fine arts.
83. Jordan's port.
84. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
85. Before noon.
87. An onerous or difficult concern.
89. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
90. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
91. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
93. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
97. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
99. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.

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