Crossword Puzzle Number 2148 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
4. A theatrical performer.
9. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
13. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
16. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
17. The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose.
18. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
19. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
20. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
21. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
22. Sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors.
23. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
24. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
26. Any of various showy orchids of the genus Calanthe having white or yellow or rose-colored flowers and broad leaves folded lengthwise.
28. A canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter.
30. New Year's Eve in Scotland.
32. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. Willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed.
39. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
42. Moderate or restrain.
46. The doctrine or belief that there is no God.
47. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
48. Dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa.
49. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
52. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
53. A master's degree in library science.
56. A visual presentation showing how something works.
57. The waging of armed conflict against an enemy.
58. Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light.
61. Extremely robust.
63. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
64. Any plant of the genus Erica.
66. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
71. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
73. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
82. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
84. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
88. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine.
89. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
90. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
91. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
92. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
93. Of or in or relating to the nose.
94. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
95. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.

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1. Lean end of the neck.
2. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
3. A woman of refinement.
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. A mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California.
6. Sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food.
7. Rounded like an egg.
8. Type genus of the Ranidae.
9. Extent downward or backward or inward.
10. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
11. Dried root of two plants of the genus Polygala containing an irritating saponin.
12. Used of a single unit or thing.
13. United States golfer who won many major golf tournaments (born in 1912).
14. Jordan's port.
15. Of or relating to or characteristic of the people or language of Malaysia and the N Malay Peninsula and parts of the W Malay Archipelago.
25. Any cognitive content held as true.
27. Slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish.
29. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
31. Informal terms for a mother.
33. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
34. Congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters).
37. An ache localized in the middle or inner ear.
38. The third month of the civil year.
40. An athlete who plays basketball.
41. 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.
43. Of or relating to the peoples who speak the language of the Arawak.
44. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
45. A nonflammable liquid (trade name Ethrane) used as an inhalation general anesthetic.
50. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
51. Distant but within sight.
54. A heavy precious metallic element.
55. (British) Diesel oil used in cars and lorries with diesel engines (from d(iesel) e(ngine) r(oad) v(ehicle)).
59. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
60. A cooperative unit.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
67. A resident of Kansas.
68. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
69. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
70. Leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree.
71. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
72. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
74. In bed.
75. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
76. Type genus of the Anatidae.
77. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
78. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
79. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
80. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
83. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
84. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
85. (informal) Of the highest quality.
86. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
87. The last (12th) month of the year.

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