Crossword Puzzle Number 2099 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
4. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
9. Type genus of the Apidae.
13. An informal term for a father.
16. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
17. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
18. An utterance made by exhaling audibly.
19. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. Unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom.
22. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
23. A large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals.
24. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
26. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
27. Resin of the kauri trees of N Zealand.
29. Someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination).
30. Type genus of Geastraceae.
32. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
38. A Loloish language.
39. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
44. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
46. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
50. A member of the Algonquian people formerly of the Pamlico river valley in North Carolina.
54. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
55. The father of your father or mother.
56. (British) The dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally).
57. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
59. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
62. Production of a certain amount.
66. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
67. Informal terms for a mother.
69. North American sucker with reddish fins.
72. Rhizomatous perennial grasslike herbs.
75. A mercury-vapor lamp used in artificial sunray treatments.
77. Any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing fruit with dark skin and juice.
78. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
79. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
83. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
84. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
87. A loose cloak with a hood.
89. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
91. Wearing footgear.
93. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
94. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
95. Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches.
96. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
97. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

DOWN

1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
3. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
4. Related by common characteristics or ancestry.
5. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
6. Order by virtue of superior authority.
7. A throne that is the official chair of a bishop.
8. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
9. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
10. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
11. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
12. A derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women.
13. Thorn apple.
14. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
15. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
25. (anatomy) Of or relating to a cavity or chamber in the body (especially one of the upper chambers of the heart).
28. The territory of Athens in ancient Greece.
31. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
33. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
34. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
36. Island country in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba.
40. Highly excited.
41. An adult male singer with the lowest voice.
42. Comic dramatist of ancient Rome (253?-184 BC).
43. English translator and Protestant martyr.
45. Having a specified size.
49. Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.
51. The vast grassy plains of northern Argentina.
52. Type genus of the Sphyrnidae.
53. A college or university team that competes at a level below the varsity team.
58. Having a gradual increase in width.
60. Any ameba of the genus Endamoeba.
61. (logic or grammar) Of or relating to scope.
63. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
64. A gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn.
65. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
68. Antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA.
70. A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols.
71. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
73. A car with two doors and front seats and a luggage compartment.
74. The protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes.
76. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
80. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
81. In bed.
82. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
85. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
86. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
88. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
90. A state in midwestern United States.
92. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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