Crossword Puzzle Number 2145 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
5. One thousandth of a second.
9. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
13. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
16. Partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water.
17. Report or maintain.
18. Toward the mouth or oral region.
19. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
20. The state of being silent (as when no one is speaking).
22. Be abundant or plentiful.
24. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
25. Poorly stated or described.
26. Of or relating the the Vedas or to the ancient Sanskrit in which they were written.
28. A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy).
29. The wood of an African obeche tree.
31. An important god.
36. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
37. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon.
40. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
43. Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians.
45. Any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria.
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
50. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
52. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
53. Designating a solution containing 1 mole of solute per 1000 grams of solvent.
54. Of or relating to the ancient city of Troy or its inhabitants.
57. (British) Inferior (espcially of a country's leadership).
58. Fiddler crabs.
59. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
60. Located below or beneath something else.
61. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
63. A state in the western United States.
67. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
68. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
69. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
70. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
72. Flemish painter of numerous portraits (1599-1641).
76. A state in northwestern North America.
80. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
83. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
86. A branch of the Tai languages.
87. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
88. A flat tortilla with various fillings piled on it.
92. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
94. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
96. A light touch or stroke.
97. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
98. A small adhesive disk of paste.
99. A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart.
100. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
101. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

DOWN

1. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
2. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
3. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
4. (trademark) A cobalt-base alloy with chromium and other metals.
5. Covered with paving material.
6. Norwegian explorer who led expeditions into the Arctic (1855-1930).
7. 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.
8. Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for.
9. Either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush.
10. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
11. An antibiotic (trade name Vancocin) effective against some bacterial infections.
12. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
13. 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.
14. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
15. A leisurely walk (usually in some public place).
21. Clean or orderly.
23. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
27. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
30. The cry made by sheep.
32. Diverge from the expected.
33. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine.
34. Small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs.
35. Genus of tropical shrubs or vines having pinnate leaves and large axillary flowers.
38. Of or relating to or suitable for statues n.
39. Act of writing in code or cipher.
41. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
42. A deep bow.
44. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
46. Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.
48. Affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste.
51. An associate degree in nursing.
55. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
56. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
62. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
64. Superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins.
65. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
66. Slightly open.
71. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
73. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
74. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
75. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
77. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
78. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
79. Jordan's port.
81. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
82. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
84. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
85. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
89. An awkward stupid person.
90. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
91. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
93. A radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium.
94. Before noon.
95. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.

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