Crossword Puzzle Number 81 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A humorous anecdote or remark.
4. (botany) Especially of leaves.
9. A Hindu prince or king in India.
13. (informal) A witty amusing person who makes jokes.
16. (Irish) The sea personified.
17. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
18. Morally bad or wrong.
19. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
20. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
21. A fishing net with three layers.
23. Consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree.
25. Make synchronous and adjust in time or manner.
27. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
29. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
30. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
32. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
34. Windowpane oysters.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. A city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva.
42. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
43. Of or relating to Papua or its people or language.
48. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
49. Deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers.
53. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943).
55. Someone with the power to settle matters at will.
56. Type genus of the Suidae.
57. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
58. Relating to the Andes and their inhabitants.
60. Small genus of succulent annual herbs found on sandy shores of North America and Europe.
62. A connecting point at which several lines come together.
64. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
66. The time that has elapsed.
67. Wildly disordered.
68. English monk and scholar (672-735).
69. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
71. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
72. A state in midwestern United States.
77. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
81. Filled with a great quantity.
86. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
87. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
88. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
90. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
92. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine.
93. (computer science) A read-only memory chip that can be erased by ultraviolet light and programmed again with new data.
94. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
96. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
97. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
98. The basic unit of money on Sao Tome e Principe.
99. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
100. Having leadership guidance.

DOWN

1. Type genus of the Gliridae.
2. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
3. The father of your father or mother.
4. The money risked on a gamble.
5. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
6. A view of the sea.
7. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
8. An artificial source of visible illumination.
9. Antiquity that as survived from the distant past.
10. The eleventh month of the civil year.
11. Any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) v 1.
12. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
13. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
14. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
15. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
22. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
24. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
26. A linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em.
28. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
31. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
33. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. A colorless fragrant liquid found in many essential oils.
36. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
39. Deliberately vague or ambiguous.
40. Having nodules or occurring in the form of nodules.
41. Genus of North American herbs.
44. A port city in southwestern Iran.
45. A university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign.
46. Similar or related in quality or character.
47. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
50. A Russian river.
51. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
52. Of or like a cecum.
54. A genus of Pyralidae.
59. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
61. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
63. Suggestive of the supernatural.
65. An athlete who plays basketball.
70. Having a crew.
73. Something hard to endure.
74. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
76. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
78. Small wildcat of the mountains of Siberia Tibet and Mongolia.
79. Affect with wonder.
80. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
82. In bed.
83. The specified day of the month.
84. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
85. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
89. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
90. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
91. Tag the base runner to get him out.
95. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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