Crossword Puzzle Number 2097 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
5. Waste matter carried away in sewers or drains.
13. Castrate, used with animals.
17. Willing to face danger.
18. Brain corals.
19. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
20. A pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid.
22. A dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods).
23. Again but in a new or different way.
24. Tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries.
26. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
28. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
30. The fourth month of the civil year.
31. Of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments n 1.
35. Something left after other parts have been taken away.
38. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
42. Related to or having filaments especially across a field of view.
43. A very troublesome child.
44. Discrimination in favor of the able-bodied.
46. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
47. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
50. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
51. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
52. A disorder of the glands of the body.
58. Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet.
59. Type genus of the Anatidae.
60. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
61. Not fake or counterfeit.
62. Admission to a group (especially a college or university).
64. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
66. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
68. The content of cognition.
70. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
71. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
74. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
76. Produced by a manufacturing process.
79. A person whose occupation is making and altering garments.
82. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
86. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
87. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
88. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
90. Either extremity of something that has length.
92. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
94. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
95. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
96. Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor.
97. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
98. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.

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1. A city in northern India.
2. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
3. Herbs of Mediterranean to central Asia cultivated for their flowers.
4. Orient once again, after a disorientation.
5. Small cold-water silvery fish.
6. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
7. Having been taken in marriage.
8. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
9. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
10. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
11. Relatively large in size or number or extent.
12. Gained or acquired.
13. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
14. A long slender cigar.
15. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
16. A ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars).
21. The act of rising upward into the air.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
29. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
32. (Babylonian) The chief Babylonian god.
33. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
34. Acting according to certain accepted standards.
36. A port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea.
37. (medieval legends) The nephew of King Mark of Cornwall who fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other.
39. The part of a ship's equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm.
40. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
41. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
45. The capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
48. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
49. A genus of Mustelidae.
53. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
54. Annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers.
55. A disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin).
56. The quality of being small in number.
57. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
63. Pioneer of non-Euclidean geometry (1826-1866).
64. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
65. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
67. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
69. (informal) Of the highest quality.
72. A useful or valuable quality.
73. Of greater importance or stature or rank.
74. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
75. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
77. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
78. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
80. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
81. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
82. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
83. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
84. Dwell (archaic).
85. On or toward the lee.
89. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
91. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
93. A public promotion of some product or service.

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