Crossword Puzzle Number 2169 (Large Grid)

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1. Of or being the lowest female voice.
5. Grant credentials to.
13. A French abbot.
17. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
18. A major school of Buddhism teaching social concern and universal salvation.
19. The inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
20. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
21. A cry of sorrow and grief.
23. (informal) Exceptionally good.
24. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
25. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A decree that prohibits something.
31. Of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base.
32. Exactly vertical.
35. By bad luck.
38. In an unnatural eery manner.
40. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
42. Eliminate from the body.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. A Balkan republic in southeastern Europe.
50. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
51. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high).
53. United States physicist and molecular biologist who helped develop the first atom bomb and later opposed the use of all nuclear weapons (1898-1964).
54. 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.
55. English essayist (1775-1834).
57. Half the width of an em.
58. Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.
62. (of persons or their actions) Able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering.
63. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
65. Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land.
66. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
67. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
69. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
71. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
72. On the side away from the wind.
75. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
77. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
78. Very large deep-water snake mackerel.
81. A resin used in adhesives and paints.
83. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
85. Having been read.
86. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
90. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
91. North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes.
94. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
96. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
97. American filmmaker and comic actor (1935- ).
98. Have supper.
100. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
101. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
102. A tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area.
103. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
104. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Set lower.
3. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
4. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
5. Before noon.
6. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
7. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
8. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
9. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
10. An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
11. The basic unit of money in Peru.
12. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
13. Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.
14. Biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions.
15. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
16. A hard gary-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite.
22. Expressive of contempt.
26. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
28. Any of various units of capacity.
30. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
33. A style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law.
34. A nitrogen-containing base found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine.
36. A sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay.
37. Stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut.
39. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
41. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
43. The painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale.
44. A naturally occurring weak estrogenic hormone secreted by the mammalian ovary.
47. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
48. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
49. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. Equally distant from the extremes.
56. French poet (born in Romania) who was one of the cofounders of the Dada movement (1896-1963).
59. The posterior part of the mandible that is more or less vertical.
60. Someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying.
61. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
64. Make anew.
68. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
69. Before noon.
70. (in Scotland) A child.
73. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia).
74. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
76. The activity of keeping something secret.
79. A city on the River Aire in West Yorkshire in northern England.
80. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
82. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
84. In bed.
87. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
88. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
89. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
92. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
93. Used of a single unit or thing.
95. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
99. A state in midwestern United States.

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