Crossword Puzzle Number 125 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Former measure of the US economy.
4. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
8. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
12. Flat tableland with steep edges.
16. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
18. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
19. The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.
20. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
22. Any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8.
24. Very fertile.
25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. Changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
32. Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas.
34. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
37. A doctor's degree in religion.
38. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
39. 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).
43. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
47. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
48. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
52. A port city in western Kenya on the northeastern shore of Lake Victoria.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. An inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others.
55. A person's brother or sister.
56. A low heavy horsecart without sides.
60. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
61. A band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over.
63. A slender double-reed instrument.
65. Half the width of an em.
66. A young child.
68. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
69. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
72. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
74. 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.
75. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
80. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
83. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
85. A street of small shops (especially in Orient).
88. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
91. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
92. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
93. The act of scanning.
94. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
96. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
97. In an idle manner.
98. A Russian river.
99. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
100. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.

DOWN

1. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry).
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. The capital of Morocco.
8. Tangled in a dense mass.
9. American novelist (1909-1955).
10. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
11. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
12. A chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia halfway between New Guinea and Japan.
13. Praise, glorify, or honor.
14. A surface burn.
15. A resin used in adhesives and paints.
21. South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax.
23. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
27. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
28. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
30. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
33. Permitting leaks or leakage.
35. An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live.
36. A parliamentary democracy on the island of Barbados.
40. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
41. Brilliantly colored south Asian pheasant.
42. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
44. Done under pressure.
45. Only the bowfins.
46. Inspiring awe.
49. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
50. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
51. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
57. (informal) Of the highest quality.
58. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
59. Situated in front of the anus.
62. Type genus of the Hylidae.
64. With eagerness.
65. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
67. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
70. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
71. A Chinese gambling game.
73. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
76. An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
77. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
78. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
79. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
81. A small hard fruit.
82. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
84. One million periods per second.
86. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
87. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
89. The sign language used in the United States.
90. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
95. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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