Crossword Puzzle Number 213 (Large Grid)

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1. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
4. Secured or held in place by tape.
9. A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality.
13. The capital and largest city of Japan.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
18. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
19. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
23. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
25. Virus parasitic in bacteria.
27. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
29. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
30. Small and light boat.
32. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
36. A decree that prohibits something.
38. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
43. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. Conforming to truth.
48. A friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind.
50. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
52. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
54. A long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys).
55. A symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose.
57. (Irish) One of a group of sea demons sometimes associated with the hostile power of nature.
59. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
60. Type genus of the Sillaginidae.
62. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
65. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
66. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
67. Largest crested screamer.
68. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
69. An established ceremony prescribed by a religion.
71. Powdery starch from certain sago palms.
73. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
75. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
77. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
79. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
80. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
81. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
83. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
87. Take in, also metaphorically.
91. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
94. A branch of the Tai languages.
95. The dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food.
99. A master's degree in business.
100. English essayist (1775-1834).
101. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
103. A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral.
104. Tag the base runner to get him out.
105. Any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule.
106. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
107. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
108. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
109. A bachelor's degree in religion.

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1. Gather, as of as crops.
2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
3. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
4. Understood in a certain way.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
7. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
8. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
9. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
10. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
11. Hear or try a court case anew.
12. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
13. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
14. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
15. Toward the mouth or oral region.
22. Having relatively few calories.
24. The qualities of a hero or heroine.
26. (Bible) The archangel who was the messenger of God.
28. Of or being the lowest female voice.
31. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
33. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
35. A wooden bucket.
37. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
39. Large snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes.
40. Of or relating to John Dewey or his philosophy.
41. A loose cloak with a hood.
44. A street of small shops (especially in Orient).
46. Plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds.
49. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
51. Remove or make invisible.
53. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
56. Armor plate that protects the chest.
58. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
61. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
63. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
64. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
70. Of or relating to the philosophical study of ethics.
71. Understood in a certain way.
72. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
74. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
76. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
78. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
82. Painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of Dadaism.
84. A genus of Lamnidae.
85. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
86. Jordan's port.
88. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
89. Quality of being active or spirited or vigorous.
90. (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.
92. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
93. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
96. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
97. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
98. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
102. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.

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