Crossword Puzzle Number 2173 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A depression in an otherwise level surface.
4. An Egyptian descended from the ancient Egyptians.
8. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
12. An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up.
16. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
17. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
18. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
19. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
20. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
21. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
22. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
23. Being two more than ninety.
24. Any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs.
26. Aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery.
29. Clarified butter used in Indian cookery.
30. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
31. An informal term for a father.
32. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
35. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
37. (medieval Europe) A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord.
40. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
42. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
44. Before noon.
45. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
46. A genus of Mustelidae.
48. Singing popular songs accompanied by a recording of an orchestra (usually in bars or nightclubs).
51. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
53. Outer membrane covering an axon.
55. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
57. (informal) Of the highest quality.
58. Negation of a word or group of words.
59. Conforming to truth.
60. Antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA.
61. A humming noise.
62. A small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe.
65. A genus of Fringillidae.
68. A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion.
69. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
72. (zoology) Relating to frogs and toads.
73. An oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde.
75. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
77. An enclosed space.
80. God of fire.
84. A corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages.
88. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
90. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
91. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
93. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
94. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
95. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
98. A trivial lie.
99. Either extremity of something that has length.
100. Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor.
101. A small cake leavened with yeast.
102. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.

DOWN

1. Material used to daub walls.
2. Not in action or at work.
3. Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.
4. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
5. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
6. A major god.
7. A member of the people in southeastern India (Andhra Pradesh) who speak the Telugu language.
8. Affect with wonder.
9. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
10. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
11. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
12. Hypothyroidism marked by dry skin and swellings around lips and nose as well as mental deterioration.
13. Of or belonging to an aecium.
14. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
15. (of persons) Neat and smart in appearance.
25. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
27. A form of Japanese poetry.
28. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
33. The trade name for a drug used to treat upper respirator congestion.
34. A fraudulent business scheme.
36. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
38. Of or relating to an oracle.
39. German baroque composer (1681-1767).
41. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
43. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
47. Spherical in shape.
49. Follower of Rastafarianism.
50. The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet.
52. City in northeast Pakistan.
54. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
56. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
63. Drooping of the upper eyelid caused by muscle paralysis and weakness.
64. A cgs unit of work or energy.
66. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
67. Tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas.
70. Of or relating to or characteristic of Uganda or its people.
71. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
74. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
76. (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.
77. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
78. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
79. A state in the eastern United States.
81. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
82. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
83. Excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted.
85. The act of giving temporary assistance.
86. Type genus of the Majidae.
87. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
89. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
92. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
96. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
97. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.

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