Crossword Puzzle Number 2093 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Take in solid food.
4. Avatar of Vishnu.
8. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
12. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
16. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
17. Type genus of the Apidae.
18. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
19. Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858).
20. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
21. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
22. A city of central China.
23. A sudden short attack.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. Alligator-like reptile of Central and South America having a more heavily armored belly.
28. United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914).
32. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
34. A ray of moonlight.
38. Savory jelly based on fish or meat stock used as a mold for meats or vegetables.
39. An unusually small individual.
42. Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614).
46. Singing jazz.
50. A cylindrical tower used for storing silage.
51. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
52. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
54. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
55. Used of a single unit or thing.
56. A person forced to flee from home or country.
58. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
61. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
63. Women's underwear.
65. Of or pertaining to a number system having 8 as its base.
66. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
67. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
70. A doctor's degree in optometry.
71. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
72. A white trivalent metallic element.
73. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
77. (Greek mythology) The father of Odysseus.
79. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
81. Burst or split open, as of flowers and seeds when releasing pollen or seeds.
83. Baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables.
84. A period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday.
85. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
89. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
90. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
93. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
94. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
96. Sudden sharp painful emotion.
98. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
99. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
100. A battle in World War II.
101. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
102. The habitation of wild animals.

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1. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
2. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
3. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
4. The airforce of Great Britain.
5. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
6. 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.
7. (ophthalmology) Impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea.
8. A plant fiber used for making rope.
9. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. An industrial region in the Ukraine.
12. Warn in advance or beforehand.
13. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
14. Make or become free of frost or ice.
15. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
25. Flesh of mostly Pacific food fishes of the genus Sarda of the family Scombridae.
27. Informal terms for a mother.
29. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
30. A genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers.
31. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
33. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
35. Two names for the suborder of typical songbirds.
36. The capital of Western Samoa.
37. Minor or subordinate.
40. The father of your father or mother.
41. A Nilotic language.
43. Put out or expel from a place.
44. Salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish.
45. Coextensive with the family Oleaceae.
47. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
53. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
57. A rounded projection or protuberance.
59. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
60. Grow together (of plants and organs).
62. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
64. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
68. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
69. A crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins.
70. 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.
74. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
75. Lacking in amplitude or quantity.
76. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
78. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
80. The sacred city of Lamaism.
82. A large number or amount.
86. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
87. Informal terms for money.
88. A primeval personification of air and breath.
91. Vietnamese New Year.
92. A strong emotion.
95. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
97. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.

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