Crossword Puzzle Number 2057 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. The highest level or degree attainable.
13. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
16. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
17. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
18. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
19. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
20. Of or relating to or characteristic of Bengal or its people.
22. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
24. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
25. Garlic mayonnaise.
26. A purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens.
29. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
31. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
32. An oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas.
37. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
41. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. A concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression).
46. A small lump or protuberance.
48. Chief port of Yemen.
50. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
53. (Norse mythology) God of thunder and rain and farming.
54. Material used to daub walls.
56. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god).
58. A fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance).
59. An insect or other arthropod between molts.
61. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
63. The outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
64. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
65. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
67. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
68. A branch of the Tai languages.
69. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
72. Being five more than one hundred fifty.
74. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
77. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
78. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
79. Having winglike extensions.
81. A festival featuring African-American culture.
85. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
87. Tall New Zealand timber tree.
88. Of or relating to a creed.
92. Short-horned dark-coated goat antelope of mountain areas of south and southeast Asia.
95. Any of various widely distributed beetles.
97. 1 species.
99. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
100. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
101. Being one more than seven.
103. A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.
104. A branch of the Tai languages.
105. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
106. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
107. Same in identity.
108. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
2. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
3. A Spanish title of respect for a married woman.
4. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
5. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
6. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
7. Before noon.
8. With no effort to conceal.
9. The capital of Eritrea.
10. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
11. The vein in the center of a leaf.
12. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
13. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
14. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
15. (informal) Exceptionally good.
21. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
28. A divided skirt.
30. A heavy precious metallic element.
33. New World lizards.
34. In bed.
35. Of or relating to Galileo or his works.
36. A net or mesh foundation for lace.
38. Towards the shore from the water.
39. Capable of being isolated or disjoined.
40. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
44. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
47. Tall hat.
49. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
51. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
52. A state in north central United States.
55. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
57. An inhabitant of Lappland.
60. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
62. Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977).
66. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. The sixth month of the civil year.
71. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
72. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
73. Painted beauty and red admiral.
74. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
75. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
76. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
80. Of or relating to or near the tarsus of the foot.
82. The capital and largest city of Lithuania.
83. Collect or gather.
84. Strong and sharp.
85. Being nine more than ninety.
86. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
89. English essayist (1775-1834).
90. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
91. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
92. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
93. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
94. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
96. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
98. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
102. A state in the Rocky Mountains.

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