Crossword Puzzle Number 1269 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A light touch or stroke.
4. A small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins.
9. The head of the Roman Catholic Church.
13. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
16. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
17. Lower in esteem.
18. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
19. The chance to speak.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. A city in northeastern France in Lorraine.
22. A vessel that carries passengers or freight v 1.
23. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
24. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
26. The quarter of many European cities in which Jews are required to live.
27. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
32. Being derived from.
35. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
38. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
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).
41. Come into existence.
46. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
47. Fish with dorsoventrally flattened bodies.
49. Distant in either space or time.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..
53. (biochemistry) Purine base found in DNA and RNA.
55. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
58. An associate degree in nursing.
59. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
60. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
62. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
63. From 40 million to 58 million years ago.
65. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
66. One millionth of a gram.
67. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
69. United States photographer remembered for her portraits of rural workers during the Depression (1895-1965).
70. Suggestive of the supernatural.
72. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
74. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
76. A public promotion of some product or service.
77. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
78. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
81. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
84. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
86. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
90. A means of serving.
93. A telegram sent abroad.
95. Pocket mice.
96. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
97. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
98. An unforeseen development.
100. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
102. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
103. Call upon in supplication.
104. A genus of Indriidae.
105. Any competition.
106. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.

DOWN

1. Made of fir or pine.
2. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
3. Divulge information or secrets.
4. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. The capital and largest city of Myanmar.
7. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. So adjusted as to be appropriate or brought into harmony.
9. Used especially of mail.
10. United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (born in 1905).
11. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
12. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
13. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
14. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
15. A major victory by the Romans over the Macedonians in 168 BC.
25. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
28. A native or inhabitant of Afghanistan.
31. A family of birds coextensive with the order Rheiformes.
33. An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live.
34. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
36. A flammable alcohol derived from butanes and used for solvents.
37. A fast sailboat with 3 parallel hulls.
40. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
42. A grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically).
43. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
44. A genus of Malayan tree.
45. Small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye.
48. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
50. Become broader or wider or more extensive.
54. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
56. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
57. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
61. The sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate.
64. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
68. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
71. A motley assortment of things.
73. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
75. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
79. Being or given to servile imitation.
80. A long loincloth worn by Hindu men.
82. A person to whom money is paid.
83. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position.
84. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
85. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
87. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
88. The eighth month of the civil year.
89. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
91. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
92. The habitation of wild animals.
94. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
99. A state in east central United States.
101. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.

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