Crossword Puzzle Number 2072 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
9. An informal term for a father.
13. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
16. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
17. Make less active or intense.
18. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
19. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
20. Pertaining to or resembling Utopia.
22. Spanish Jesuit missionary who establish missionaries in Japan and Ceylon and the East Indies (1506-1552).
24. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
25. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
26. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
28. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
29. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
31. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
32. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
33. Contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.
37. A city of southwestern Russia.
40. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
42. The widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood.
45. The basic unit of money in Iran.
46. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed.
49. The financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time.
50. Wife of Balder.
51. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
53. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
55. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
56. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
57. Any of various orchids of the genus Bletia having pseudo-bulbs and erect leafless racemes of large purple or pink flowers.
59. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
61. Web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas.
64. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
67. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
69. Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements.
70. By bad luck.
71. Third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964).
74. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
75. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
77. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
78. A public promotion of some product or service.
80. An expression of greeting.
81. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
88. A city of central China.
92. (plural) Rare collector's items.
95. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
96. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
97. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
99. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
100. The bill in a restaurant.
101. The act of scanning.
102. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
103. A quantity of no importance.
104. (Babylonian) The sky god.

DOWN

1. A hollow twanging sound.
2. New Zealand conifer.
3. Having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention.
4. Marked by the reception of pay.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
7. A New England state.
8. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
9. Mother goddess.
10. Type genus of the Amiidae.
11. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
12. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
13. Drug (trade name Kemadrin) used to reduce tremors in parkinsonism.
14. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
15. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
21. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. United States comedian remembered for his large nose and hoarse voice (1893-1980).
29. French painter who developed pointilism (1859-1891).
34. A dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine spray.
35. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
36. Humble request for help.
38. (Spanish) Sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water.
39. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
41. A beta blocker (trade name Blocadren) administered after heart attacks.
43. Being one more than one.
44. A native or inhabitant of Scotland.
47. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
48. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
52. Lower in esteem.
54. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
58. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
60. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
62. Of or relating to or in the manner of the playwright Henrik Ibsen.
63. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
65. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
66. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
68. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
72. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
73. A native of ancient Troy.
76. A rapid bustling commotion.
79. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
82. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
83. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
84. Toward the mouth or oral region.
85. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
86. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
87. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
89. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
90. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
91. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
93. (informal) Roused to anger.
94. Seed of a pea plant.
98. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.

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