Crossword Puzzle Number 2028 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
4. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
9. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
16. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
17. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers.
18. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
19. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
20. German painter and engraver noted for his portraits.
22. Shaped like a dish.
23. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
24. Type genus of the Nepidae.
25. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
27. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
29. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
31. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
33. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
35. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
36. An enclosed space.
42. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
44. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
47. (of spatial position) In or brought into line with or into proper relative position.
48. Lean end of the neck.
51. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
52. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
54. A Bantu language spoken in Cameroon.
55. Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor.
56. Inability to stand due to muscular incoordination.
58. A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence.
59. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
61. A small natural hill.
63. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
64. A passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement.
66. The latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall).
70. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
71. A Mid-Atlantic state.
73. A straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions.
74. English essayist (1775-1834).
77. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
80. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
82. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
85. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
86. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
88. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
90. Any plant of the genus Erica.
94. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
97. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
99. A light touch or stroke.
100. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
101. A technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing).
103. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
104. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
105. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
106. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
107. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
108. How long something has existed.

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1. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
2. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
3. Colony of the United Kingdom located on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain.
4. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
5. An act that exploits or victimizes someone.
6. An island of central Hawaii.
7. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
8. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
9. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
10. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
11. American novelist (1909-1955).
12. An informal term for a father.
13. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
21. With no effort to conceal.
26. A mask with a filter protects the face an lungs against poisonous gases.
28. Aimlessly drifting.
30. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
32. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
34. Of or relating to the chest or thorax.
37. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
38. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
39. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
40. Genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers.
41. Lacking a cutting edge.
43. Small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests.
45. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
46. The third month of the civil year.
49. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
50. Bite or chew on with the teeth.
53. Made from or largely consisting of silver.
57. A state in east central United States.
60. A genus of Ploceidae.
62. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
65. An affirmative.
67. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
68. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
69. Being nine more than thirty.
72. Small genus of shrubs and small trees of New Zealand.
75. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
76. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
78. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
79. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
81. Related on the mother's side.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
84. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
87. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
88. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
89. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
91. The content of cognition.
92. 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.
93. A French abbot.
95. (Irish) The sea personified.
96. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
98. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
102. One thousand periods per second.
103. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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