Crossword Puzzle Number 2229 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
5. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
9. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
16. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
17. Using speech rather than writing.
18. The act of drawing or hauling something.
19. A light touch or stroke.
20. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
21. Deciduous aromatic shrubs or small trees.
22. The essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized.
24. Cause to change.
25. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
26. A motley assortment of things.
28. An associate degree in nursing.
30. A Nilotic language.
32. That is to say.
33. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
35. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
37. (in Scotland) A child.
39. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
41. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
44. Weapons considered collectively.
47. Being on the left side.
51. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
53. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
57. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
58. Small family of usually tropical butterflies.
61. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
64. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
65. Migratory American songbird.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
67. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
69. Before noon.
70. Of or relating to a caesura.
72. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
73. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
75. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
76. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
77. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
78. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
80. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
82. The act of gambling.
88. German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia (1868-1934).
91. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
93. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
95. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
96. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
97. A small collection of people.
99. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
100. Being two more than fifty.
101. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
102. United States anatomist who identified four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin E (1882-1971).
103. Avatar of Vishnu.
104. A boy or man.

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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
3. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
4. The property of being physically or mentally strong.
5. (Australian and New Zealand) A disparaging term for English immigrants to Australia or New Zealand.
6. Genus of powdery mildews.
7. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
8. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.
9. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. Timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial.
12. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
13. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
14. Cuban poet and revolutionary who fought for Cuban independence from Spain (1853-1895).
15. Excessively fat.
23. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
34. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
36. Be earlier in time.
38. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
40. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
43. A public promotion of some product or service.
45. Lost temporarily.
46. Perceptible especially by the eye.
48. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
49. Unknown god.
50. An armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force).
52. Top part of an apron.
54. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
55. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
56. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
59. Regarded with admiration.
60. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
62. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
63. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
68. A compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur).
71. Large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs.
74. Source of a tough elastic wood.
79. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
81. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
83. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
84. Any competition.
85. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
86. Report or maintain.
87. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
88. The face of a timepiece.
89. English essayist (1775-1834).
90. A sudden short attack.
92. The month following October and preceding December.
94. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
98. Half the width of an em.

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