Crossword Puzzle Number 2142 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
4. The body excluding the head and neck and limbs.
9. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
13. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
16. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
17. Diving ducks of North America having a bluish-gray bill.
18. 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.
19. A doctor's degree in education.
20. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
21. Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight.
22. Not widely known.
23. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
24. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
26. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
29. An oil port in southern Iraq.
31. The capital of Turkey.
33. A white trivalent metallic element.
35. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
37. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
41. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
44. Any location known for vice and corruption.
45. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
47. A resident of Utah.
48. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
49. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
51. A large and imposing house.
52. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
53. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
57. A relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body.
58. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
60. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
64. Of or relating to the feet.
65. The food served and eaten at one time.
67. Held back.
68. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
70. Obvious and dull.
73. An informal term for a father.
74. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
76. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
77. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
83. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
84. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
88. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
89. Enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds.
91. Add ions to.
93. Any federal law-enforcement officer.
94. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
95. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
97. (informal) Roused to anger.
98. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
99. Widely known and esteemed.
100. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
101. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.

DOWN

1. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
2. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
3. Short and fat.
4. Blood-sucking African fly.
5. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
6. A motley assortment of things.
7. Type genus of the Sulidae.
8. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
9. A porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed).
10. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
11. An important person in India.
12. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
13. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
14. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
15. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
25. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
27. Take someone's car from him by force.
28. A city in central Tanzania.
30. A difficult entangling situation.
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. Covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified.
36. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
38. Order of mammals having few or no teeth including.
39. Having a bald spot either shaved or natural.
40. The animal order including amoebas.
42. A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way.
43. An unforeseen obstacle.
46. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
50. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
54. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
55. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
56. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
59. A member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas.
61. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
62. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
63. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
66. A boy or man.
69. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
71. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
72. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth.
73. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
75. A member of the North American Indian people of Oregon.
78. In bed.
79. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
80. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
81. An elaborate party (often outdoors).
82. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
85. Avatar of Vishnu.
86. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
87. English monk and scholar (672-735).
90. The capital and largest city of Japan.
91. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
92. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
96. An informal term for a father.

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