Crossword Puzzle Number 948 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
4. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
8. An indistinct shapeless form.
12. Wearing footgear.
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
18. A genus of Mustelidae.
19. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
20. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
22. A quantity of no importance.
23. A pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished.
24. A deposit of personal property as security for a debt.
25. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. Someone whose business is advertising.
31. With rapid movements.
33. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
35. Having been given flavor (as by seasoning).
38. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
40. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
44. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
45. A number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance).
47. A gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence).
50. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
51. At or constituting a border or edge.
52. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
55. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
57. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
59. An associate degree in nursing.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
62. A single splash.
63. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
65. A woman sahib.
68. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. Swiss writer (born in Germany) whose novels and poems express his interests in Eastern spiritual values (1877-1962).
75. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
78. Small depression under the shoulder joint where the arm joins the shoulder.
81. (informal) Of the highest quality.
84. An informal term for a father.
85. An informal conversation.
87. Strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.
90. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
91. Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage.
92. A slender double-reed instrument.
93. A master's degree in business.
95. A blind god.
96. Very small.
97. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.

DOWN

1. A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th.
2. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
3. Indigo bush.
4. A branch of the Tai languages.
5. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
6. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
7. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
8. Of or relating to or characteristic of Benin or its people.
9. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
10. A severe or trying experience.
11. The cry made by sheep.
12. A tetravalent nonmetallic element.
13. A long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor.
14. Look at with amorous intentions.
15. A small replica of a person.
21. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
26. Temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work.
27. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
30. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
32. A person to whom money is paid.
34. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
36. Submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts.
37. Mental deterioration of organic or functional origin.
39. (used as a sentenced connector) Therefore or consequently.
41. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
42. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
43. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
49. Not active or moving.
53. Antibacterial drug used to treat leprosy and some kinds of skin diseases.
54. A can with a long nozzle to apply oil to machinery.
56. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
58. A bachelor's degree in science.
64. A group of trees and shrubs and herbs mostly with polypetalous flowers.
66. A person who greets.
67. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
69. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
71. A male servant (especially a footman).
73. Praise, glorify, or honor.
74. A biased way of looking at or presenting something.
76. Son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil.
77. A city in central Georgia southeast of Atlanta.
79. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
80. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
82. A small cake leavened with yeast.
83. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
86. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
88. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
89. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.

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