Crossword Puzzle Number 2044 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (informal) Exceptionally good.
5. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
9. 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.
13. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
16. River in eastern Asia.
17. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
18. A European river.
19. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
20. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
21. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
23. Lower in esteem.
25. A doctor's degree in religion.
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
28. Offensive or even (of persons) malicious.
29. An associate degree in nursing.
30. The father of your father or mother.
31. An honorary degree in science.
34. A state in midwestern United States.
35. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
38. A South American river.
45. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
46. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
47. United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909).
48. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
50. (usually plural) A destructive action.
52. (Hinduism or Buddhism) A sacred word or syllable repeated in prayer or meditation.
54. A state in the eastern United States.
55. (ecology) The process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat.
56. Any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers.
59. Gnaw into.
60. Immediately past.
62. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
63. A public promotion of some product or service.
66. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
67. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
70. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
74. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
76. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
79. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
81. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. Garments (clothes or linens) that are to be (or have been) ironed.
87. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
91. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
93. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
94. The officer below the master on a commercial ship.
95. Widespread genus or herbs or soft-wooded arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers.
97. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
98. A primeval personification of air and breath.
99. An oral beta blocker (trade name Tenormin) used in treating hypertension and angina.
100. Fallow deer.

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1. Explorer and United States naval officer.
2. A sudden short attack.
3. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
4. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
5. An awkward stupid person.
6. After noon.
7. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
8. The longest river of Asia.
9. All the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age.
10. Someone whose business is advertising.
11. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
12. The father of your father or mother.
13. United States poet (1884-1933).
14. (of molten metal or glass) Formed by pouring or pressing into a mold n 1.
15. A person who is the victim of ridicule or exploitation by some hostile person or influence.
22. (Irish) The sea personified.
24. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
27. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
29. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
32. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
33. Compelled forcibly by an outside agency.
36. Used to make malmsey wine.
37. The act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity.
39. A state in northwestern North America.
40. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
41. Having two axes.
42. Partial or total loss of memory.
43. Engage or hire for work.
44. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
49. A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure.
51. A formal association of people with similar interests.
53. Type and only genus of the family Tytonidae.
57. Unknown god.
58. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
61. A light touch or stroke.
64. The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs.
65. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
68. A discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal.
69. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
72. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
75. Filled with a great quantity.
77. Possessing or displaying courage.
78. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
79. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
80. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
82. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
84. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
85. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
86. The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.
88. Type genus of the Nepidae.
89. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
90. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
92. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
96. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.

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