Crossword Puzzle Number 1553 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
9. The consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event).
13. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
16. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
17. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
18. Advanced in years.
19. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
20. The basic unit of money in Romania.
21. Having had the bones removed.
23. (British slang) A scientist or technician engaged in military research.
25. A town in central Belgium.
27. The state that precedes vomiting.
28. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
29. The father of your father or mother.
31. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
34. (prefix) Half or partial.
38. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
39. Retinal protein formed by the action of light on rhodopsin.
42. A vertical pole or post decorated with streamers that can be held by dancers celebrating May Day.
45. A person who is tricked or swindled.
48. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
49. The person who steers a ship.
50. A sign of something about to happen.
51. American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
52. The extreme end of something.
53. Any of various units of capacity.
54. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
55. Either extremity of something that has length.
58. A state in midwestern United States.
60. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
61. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
63. 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).
64. Relating to the Lamaze method of childbirth.
66. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
67. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
68. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
69. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
70. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
72. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
74. A decree that prohibits something.
79. Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water.
82. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
85. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
87. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
89. God of wealth and love.
91. Far distant in space.
92. (botany) Relating to or attached to the axis.
93. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
94. Undo the ties of.
96. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
98. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
99. Your general store of remembered information.
100. English comedienne and mistress of Charles II (1650-1687).
101. An informal term for a father.
102. A unit of length of thread or yarn.

DOWN

1. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
2. Clear to the mind.
3. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
4. An industrial town in north central Alabama.
5. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
6. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
7. The natural satellite of the Earth.
8. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
9. A large number or amount.
10. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
11. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
12. The capital and largest city of Japan.
13. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
14. Young bird especially of domestic fowl.
15. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
22. Mastiff bats.
24. Metal supports for logs in a fireplace.
26. (sports) Not offside.
30. Antihistamine (trade name Dimetane) used to treat hypersensitivity reactions (as rhinitis).
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. Any of various forms of aluminum oxide occurring naturally as corundum.
35. A large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it.
36. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
37. Divulge information or secrets.
40. Relating to or occurring on the undersurface of the foot.
41. The act of causing something to go (especially messages).
43. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
44. (Sumerian) God of the air and king of the Sumerian gods.
46. Type genus of the Pezizaceae.
47. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
56. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
57. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
59. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
62. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
65. (trademark) An antacid.
71. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
73. (Old Testament) A youth who was taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into a den of lions (6th century BC).
74. (informal) Rural and uncouth.
75. German mathematician who created the Klein bottle (1849-1925).
76. A lake in northwestern Russia.
77. An honorary arts degree.
78. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
80. A ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat.
81. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
83. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
84. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..
86. Showily imitative of art or artists.
88. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
90. The month following July and preceding September.
91. Before noon.
95. The compass point midway between north and west.
97. A public promotion of some product or service.

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