Crossword Puzzle Number 2122 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
4. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
9. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
13. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
16. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
17. An informal term for a father.
18. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. An accountant certified by the state.
20. Broken into sharp pieces.
22. A subsonic jet airliner operated over short distances.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
25. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
27. Fit or suitable to live in or with.
29. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
32. Made afraid.
34. United States film actress (born in Sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990).
36. A just detectable amount.
40. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
44. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
46. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
48. An electrically charged particle.
49. In bed.
53. An elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond.
56. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
58. Fiddler crabs.
59. Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods.
61. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
63. The sound made by a horse.
64. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
68. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
69. A small cartilaginous flap in front of the external opening of the ear.
71. Any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds.
74. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
76. Being one more than fifty.
77. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
78. A doctor's degree in music.
81. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
84. A short respite.
87. A Russian river.
88. The products of human creativity.
90. A short synopsis.
92. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
93. A person who is abnormally small.
94. The basic unit of money on Malta.
96. A weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel).
97. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
98. The usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant.
99. Advanced in years.
100. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.

DOWN

1. In addition.
2. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
3. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
4. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
5. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
6. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
7. A bachelor's degree in religion.
8. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
9. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
10. United States composer and rockabilly tenor popular in the 1950s (1936-1988).
11. Of a pale to moderate grayish violet color n.
12. Not in a specified place physically or mentally.
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
15. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
21. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
26. Tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood.
28. (anatomy) Of or relating to a cavity or chamber in the body (especially one of the upper chambers of the heart).
30. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
31. A large fleet.
33. Someone who enjoys riotous drinking.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. A complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice.
38. Hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia.
39. Proceed or issue forth, as from a source.
42. The bottom of a sea or ocean.
45. Sightlessness (especially because of a structural defect in or the absence of an eye).
47. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. Grow together (of plants and organs).
52. British informal term.
54. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
55. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
57. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
60. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia.
62. A seat for the rider of a horse.
65. Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression).
66. A master's degree in literature.
67. Minor or subordinate.
70. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
72. The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
73. Come out into view, as from concealment.
74. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
75. Liquid excretory product.
79. Not trimmed.
80. A Finnish steam bath.
82. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
83. On, to, or at the top.
85. The twelfth month of the civil year.
86. Type genus of the Hylidae.
89. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
90. A public promotion of some product or service.
91. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
95. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.

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