Crossword Puzzle Number 2227 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
4. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
9. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
13. Informal terms for the mouth.
16. The month following April and preceding June.
17. Lower in esteem.
18. Tall New Zealand timber tree.
19. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
20. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
21. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
22. Strike sharply.
23. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
24. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
26. A doctor's degree in education.
28. English financier (1519-1579).
30. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
31. State categorically.
34. A region and ancient country in the east of the Balkan Peninsula north of the Aegean Sea.
38. From the kapok tree.
45. Someone who consumes food for nourishment.
46. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
47. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
48. A heading that names a statute or legislative bill.
49. A several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant.
50. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
52. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
53. A person's brother or sister.
54. Not out.
57. A short erect tail.
58. Not in action or at work.
60. One appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions.
63. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
64. A bluish shade of green.
66. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
68. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
69. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
70. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
77. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
79. Well in the past.
83. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
87. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
88. A substance made of fused alumina.
90. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible.
91. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
92. The distinctive form in which a thing is made.
93. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
95. Of the nature of or undergoing an experiment.
96. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
97. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
98. Type genus of the Anatidae.
99. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.

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1. At full speed.
2. The amount a salary is increased.
3. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
4. United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927).
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
7. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
8. A notable achievement.
9. Irritate or vex.
10. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of a pair of heavy metal circles (usually covered with leather) suspended by ropes.
11. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
12. A radio receiver that combines a locally generated frequency with the carrier frequency to produce a supersonic signal that is demodulated and amplified.
13. Not only so, but.
14. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
15. A city in the European part of Russia.
25. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
27. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
29. A bad or difficult situation or state of affairs.
32. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
33. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
35. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
36. (biology) Relating to cells.
37. Capable of being raised to an upright position.
39. Climbing salamanders.
40. A city in south central Mexico (southeast of Mexico City) on the edge of central Mexican plateau.
41. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
42. Treated with iodine.
43. Inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects.
44. An order of Eutheria.
51. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
55. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
56. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
59. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
61. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
62. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
65. A beta-adrenergic blocking agent (trade name Corgard) that is used to treat hypertension and angina.
66. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
67. Examine by palpation for medical purposes.
68. Not only so, but.
71. Spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun.
73. A particular environment or walk of life.
74. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
76. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
78. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
80. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
81. (law) Lacking any legal or binding force.
82. (prefix) Within.
84. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
85. A piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments.
86. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
89. Fiddler crabs.
94. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.

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