Crossword Puzzle Number 8072 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
4. Spherical gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies.
9. An informal term for a father.
13. The player judged to be the most important to the sport.
16. Wood duck and mandarin duck.
17. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
18. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
20. A card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker.
24. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
25. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
27. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
28. A doctor's degree in education.
29. A skullcap worn by nuns under a veil or by soldiers under a hood of mail or formerly by British sergeants-at-law v 1.
30. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
32. A city in Veneto.
38. Being nine more than forty.
40. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
42. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
43. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
44. American novelist (1909-1955).
46. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
48. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
50. Type genus of the Nepidae.
51. The act of scanning.
52. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
53. Squash bugs.
54. Inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable.
58. A woman religious.
59. Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units.
60. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
61. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
63. United States baseball player (born in 1931).
65. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
66. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
67. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
68. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
71. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
73. 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.
74. United States heavyweight boxing champion (1866-1933).
78. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
79. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
81. At full speed.
82. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
84. One of two official languages of Norway.
88. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
91. 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.
92. Look at with amorous intentions.
93. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
94. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
96. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
97. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
98. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
99. God of death.
100. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
2. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
3. Go beyond.
4. God of war.
5. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
6. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
7. The basic unit of money in Macao.
8. An expression of greeting.
9. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
10. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
11. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
12. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
13. A woman of refinement.
14. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
15. A member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
21. Of or relating to a caduceus.
22. Boas and pythons.
23. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language.
26. Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak.
31. A Nilotic language.
33. A republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea.
34. Resembling a berry.
35. Dyed with henna.
36. A long sleeveless vestment worn by a priest when celebrating Mass.
37. A three-sided polygon.
39. Light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.
41. Consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode.
45. A thermosetting resin.
47. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
49. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
55. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
56. Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.
57. (informal) Exceptionally good.
62. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.
64. Small genus of deciduous West Indian trees or shrubs.
65. God of war.
69. The habitation of wild animals.
70. Of or relating to the wrist.
72. A nation in northern North America.
75. The ending of a series or sequence.
76. A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll.
77. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
80. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
81. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
83. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
85. (Norse mythology) The primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world.
86. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
87. God of love and erotic desire.
89. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
90. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
95. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

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