Crossword Puzzle Number 2073 (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. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
8. Hit hard.
12. Employed in accomplishing something.
16. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
17. A French abbot.
18. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
19. The 6th letter of the Greek alphabet.
20. Cheap and shoddy.
21. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
23. (of champagne) Extremely dry.
24. A light touch or stroke.
29. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
30. Enclose in, or as if in, a case "my feet were encased in mud.".
36. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
39. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
45. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
46. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
49. A city in northwestern Syria.
51. Toward the mouth or oral region.
52. In the process of being born or beginning.
53. A long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked).
54. A decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game).
56. A particular environment or walk of life.
57. An elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond.
58. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
59. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
61. A unit of pressure.
62. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
67. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
69. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
71. Incapable of or resistant to bending.
74. Cause to be embarrassed.
78. God of fire.
81. A plaything that is ridden up and down by children at either end.
83. A telegram sent abroad.
84. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
87. A large metal or pottery vessel with a handle and spout.
89. Perceive sound.
90. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
91. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
93. Informal terms for money.
94. Of or being the lowest female voice.
95. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
96. The sixth month of the civil year.
97. A message received and understood that reduces the recipient's uncertainty.
98. A condition requiring relief.

DOWN

1. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
4. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
5. Make amends for.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
8. A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles.
9. A Loloish language.
10. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
11. Seed of a pea plant.
12. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
13. A person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant).
14. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
15. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
22. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
25. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
26. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
27. A ceremonial procession including people marching.
28. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
31. Of or relating to neurons.
32. Hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles.
33. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
34. Transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public.
35. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting.
37. Tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow flowers.
38. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
42. Division of a usually pinnately divided leaf.
44. Not agitated.
47. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
48. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
50. Small magnifying glass (usually set in an eyepiece) used by jewelers and horologists.
55. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
60. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
63. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
64. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
65. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
66. Of or pertaining to Sabah or its people.
67. A person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant).
68. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
70. British informal term.
72. Hold back to a later time.
73. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
74. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
75. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
76. (formerly) A writing tablet made of slate.
77. King of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC).
79. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
80. Not at all or in no way.
82. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
86. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
88. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
92. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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