Crossword Puzzle Number 921 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
4. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
9. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
13. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
18. United States feminist (1885-1977).
19. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
20. Any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) v 1.
21. 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.
22. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
23. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
24. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
26. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
29. Cut the head of.
31. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
32. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god).
34. (computer science) A rule stating that the quality of the output is a function of the quality of the input.
38. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
41. A flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery).
45. A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge.
49. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
50. Any beetle of the genus Calosoma.
52. Report or maintain.
53. To fix or set securely or deeply.
55. The monkey god.
56. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
57. The fatty flesh of eel.
58. A public promotion of some product or service.
60. Lean end of the neck.
62. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
63. An angular shape made by folding.
65. A blow that renders the opponent unconscious.
66. Kill in large numbers.
69. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
70. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
72. Away from the mouth or oral region.
73. A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).
77. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
78. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
79. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
83. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
87. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
90. A large fleet.
92. Lower in esteem.
94. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
95. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
96. First in order of importance.
98. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
101. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
102. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
103. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
104. Not easy.
105. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. Native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery.
3. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
4. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. World's longest river (4187 miles).
7. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
8. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
9. Large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber.
10. The general activity of selling.
11. Cap that fits over the hub of a wheel.
12. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
13. British composer (1857-1934).
14. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
15. Having lost freshness or brilliance of color.
25. The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit.
27. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
28. Of or relating to or near the coccyx.
30. 1/10 gram.
33. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
35. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
36. An unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang.
37. The ohmic resistance of a conductor.
39. Shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials.
40. English clergyman who (with John Henry Newman and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford Movement (1792-1866).
42. A state in northwestern North America.
43. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
44. (of hair) Groomed with pomade.
46. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
47. An account describing incidents or events.
48. Be earlier in time.
51. An associate degree in nursing.
54. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
59. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
61. Humorously vulgar.
64. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
67. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
68. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
71. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
74. Covered with paving material.
75. Being nine more than ninety.
76. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
80. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
81. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
82. Squash bugs.
83. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
84. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
85. Very light colored.
86. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
88. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
89. God of love and erotic desire.
91. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
93. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
97. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
99. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
100. A bachelor's degree in religion.

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