Crossword Puzzle Number 2231 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A federally chartered savings bank.
4. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
9. Not final or absolute.
13. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
16. (informal) Of the highest quality.
17. Front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere.
18. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
21. (of groups of people) Tending to travel and change settlements frequently.
23. Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.).
25. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
27. English essayist (1775-1834).
28. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
29. The state of being unsure of something.
33. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
34. North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
38. A bachelor's degree in religion.
40. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
41. Cause to move forward with force.
46. A kind of person.
48. Of or relating to the palm of the hand.
49. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
52. The 8th letter of the Greek alphabet.
54. A cigar made with light-colored tobacco.
55. Of or relating an apse.
58. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
59. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
61. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
62. A inexpensive showy collectibles.
63. A genus of Indriidae.
66. A formation of people or things one beside another.
67. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
73. A member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called pueblos by the Spanish because they live in villages built of adobe and rock.
76. A city in northern India.
77. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
79. A purgative made from the leaves of aloe.
83. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
85. (Phoenician and Philistine) God of agriculture and the earth.
89. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
91. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
94. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
95. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
96. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
98. Fill to satisfaction.
99. A notable achievement.
100. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
101. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
102. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
103. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

DOWN

1. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor).
4. Brilliantly colored south Asian pheasant.
5. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
6. Trade name for a drug containing an antihistamine and a decongestant.
7. Rounded like an egg.
8. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
9. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
10. Being nine more than ninety.
11. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
12. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
13. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
14. European shad.
15. A formal expression of praise.
22. A state in midwestern United States.
24. A smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows.
26. An island northwest of Wales.
30. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
31. Moving very fast.
32. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
35. Archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival.
36. A social club for male undergraduates.
37. A state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally).
39. Fallow deer.
42. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
43. Any competition.
44. The dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food.
45. A metrical unit with stressed-stressed-unstressed syllables.
47. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
50. Given official approval to act.
51. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
53. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
56. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
57. The fine downy hair covering a human fetus.
60. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
64. Highly excited.
65. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
68. (of a liquid) Treated by having air passed or bubbled through it for purification.
69. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
70. Toward the mouth or oral region.
71. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
72. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
74. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
75. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
78. Act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief.
80. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
81. Look at with amorous intentions.
82. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
84. English pianist (1890-1965).
86. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
87. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
88. A quantity of no importance.
90. An informal term for a father.
92. A period of time spent sleeping.
93. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
97. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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