Crossword Puzzle Number 881 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds.
4. Offering little or no hope.
9. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
13. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
16. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
17. Region of western Asia Minor colonized by Ancient Greeks.
18. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
19. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
20. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
21. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
22. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
25. Instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which condemned persons are executed by hanging.
28. Female equine animal.
29. 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.
30. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
34. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
36. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
39. (nautical) Of an anchor.
42. A waiter at a drive-in restaurant.
46. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
50. English film actress (1913-1967).
51. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
52. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
53. Of or relating to the Isle of Man or its inhabitants or their language.
54. A category in some early taxonomies.
58. A former French coin of low denomination.
59. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
60. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
61. Being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting.
64. A unit of potential equal to one thousandth of a volt.
65. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
67. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
68. A Nilotic language.
70. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
72. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
75. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
76. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
77. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
78. Subdivision not used in some classifications.
80. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
82. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
83. A distinguishing feature of one's personal nature.
87. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
94. A mute for a violin.
96. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
98. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
99. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
100. (medicine) A grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus.
102. Not only so, but.
103. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
104. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
105. A sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease.
106. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
107. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
2. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
3. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
4. European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors.
5. Tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar.
6. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
7. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
8. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
9. A large number or amount.
10. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
13. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
14. A sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight.
15. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
23. The process of leaching.
24. Preserve a dead body.
26. Pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence.
27. A radioactive transuranic element.
31. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
32. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
33. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
35. United States piano maker (born in Germany) who founded a famous piano manufacturing firm in New York (1797-1871).
40. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
41. Type genus of the Phocidae.
43. A city in northwestern Syria.
44. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
45. (botany) Outer tissue of bark.
47. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
48. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
49. Cast-off skins or coverings of various organisms during ecdysis.
55. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
56. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
57. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
62. Report or maintain.
63. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth.
66. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
69. A syntactic string that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit.
71. A state in the eastern United States.
73. Relation of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people.
74. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
79. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
81. African mahogany trees.
82. Informal terms for a mother.
84. (Roman Catholic Church) The supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
85. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
86. Tree of low-lying coastal areas of southeastern United States having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers.
87. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
88. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
89. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
90. In bed.
91. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
92. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
93. God of love and erotic desire.
95. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
97. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
101. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.

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