Crossword Puzzle Number 2075 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. How long something has existed.
4. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
8. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
12. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
18. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
19. Disposed of to a purchaser.
20. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
21. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
23. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. An informal term for a father.
27. Having help.
28. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
29. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
31. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
33. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
37. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
41. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
42. A polypeptide antibiotic (similar to bacitracin) obtained from a soil bacterium.
44. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
48. God of fire.
49. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
50. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
51. A visual presentation showing how something works.
52. An informal term for a father.
56. The month following March and preceding May.
57. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
59. A genus of Ploceidae.
62. The time when something ends.
64. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
65. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
66. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
67. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
68. One species.
71. The superior of an abbey of monks.
73. A public promotion of some product or service.
74. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
76. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
77. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
79. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
82. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
84. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
86. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
92. A genus of delicate ferns belonging to the family Osmundaceae.
93. Of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures.
94. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
95. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
96. Made of grated potato and egg with a little flour.
98. Large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.
100. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
101. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
102. Of or relating to the former Indo-European people.
103. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
104. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Offering fun and gaiety.
3. Expel, as of gases and odors.
4. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
5. Type genus of the family Elephantidae.
6. A small cake leavened with yeast.
7. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
8. Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium.
9. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
10. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
11. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
12. Tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell.
13. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
14. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
15. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
22. A military trainee (as at a military academy).
25. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. Informal terms for a mother.
34. A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.
35. Lacking any definite plan or order or purpose.
36. United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967).
38. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
39. A Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya.
40. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
43. A drug (trade name BuSpar) designed specifically for anxiety.
45. A hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity).
46. The male ruler of an empire.
47. Of a leaf shape.
53. A plaything that is ridden up and down by children at either end.
54. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
55. A verse line with a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee.
58. A bachelor's degree in science.
60. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
61. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
63. Refuse to acknowledge.
69. Excessive desire to eat.
70. A doctor's degree in optometry.
72. A port city in southwestern Iran.
75. The sound made by a gentle blow.
78. Run away secretly with one's beloved.
80. A Nilotic language.
81. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
82. A public promotion of some product or service.
83. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
85. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
87. Chief port of Yemen.
88. United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United states films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954).
89. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
90. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
91. God of love and erotic desire.
97. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
99. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.

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