Crossword Puzzle Number 2082 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
4. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
9. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
13. An enclosed space.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
18. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. A barn for cows.
22. An Asian temple.
24. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
25. God of love and erotic desire.
26. (Japan) Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. An associate degree in nursing.
31. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
33. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
35. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
37. United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945).
39. Not out.
40. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
42. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
46. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
47. Having the surface damaged or disfigured.
51. Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur.
52. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
55. Goddess of fate.
56. A doctor's degree in optometry.
57. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
58. Having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter.
60. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
63. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
64. A Nilotic language.
65. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
66. Small and light boat.
67. cause to accept or become hardened to.
69. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
71. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
72. A fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant.
73. A diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s.
75. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
77. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
78. A battle in World War II.
83. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
86. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
89. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
92. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
94. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
96. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
97. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
98. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
99. Being three more than fifty.
100. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
101. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
102. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
103. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
104. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.

DOWN

1. A large indefinite number.
2. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
3. An officer of the law.
4. A state of southwestern India.
5. Not having rhyme.
6. A Russian river.
7. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
8. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
9. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
10. Away from the mouth or oral region.
11. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
14. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
15. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
21. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
23. A state in northwestern North America.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. A Baltic-Finnic language.
32. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
34. A drug (trade name Antabuse) used in the treatment of alcoholism.
36. Cheese containing a blue mold.
38. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
41. The second largest continent.
43. A Japanese supervisor.
44. A low stool in the shape of a drum.
45. A bronchodilator (trade name Alupent) used to treat asthma and emphysema and other lung conditions.
48. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
49. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (24,780 feet high).
50. A man who is the senior member of a group.
53. The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart.
54. Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.
59. At or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time.
61. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile v 1.
62. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
68. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
70. East Indian evergreen tree bearing very acid fruit.
71. A state of southwestern India.
74. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
76. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
79. Any plant of the genus Erica.
80. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
81. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
82. A socially awkward or tactless act.
84. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
85. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
87. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
88. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
89. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
90. A quantity of no importance.
91. The sixth month of the civil year.
93. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
95. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.

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