Crossword Puzzle Number 2240 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An informal term for a father.
4. Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation.
9. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
17. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
18. God of love and erotic desire.
19. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
20. A member of the North American Indian people living in the central Sierra Nevada in California.
22. A town in southern Minnesota.
24. Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922).
26. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
27. Someone who operates a barge.
28. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
31. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
32. Ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation.
35. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
37. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
38. Type genus of the Rhamnaceae.
41. A genus of Indriidae.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. Swedish physicist (born in Austria) who worked in the field of radiochemistry with Otto Hahn and formulated the concept of nuclear fission with Otto Frisch (1878-1968).
49. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
50. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
52. A structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young.
53. Treacherously cowardly.
55. The time of life between the ages of 12 and 20.
56. Italian actress best known for her performances in tragic roles (1858-1924).
57. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
58. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
59. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
60. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
61. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds.
62. Somewhat ill or prone to illness.
65. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
68. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
69. Chew the fat.
73. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
74. A master's degree in business.
76. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
77. A Bantu language.
80. Suggestive of youth.
82. Tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes.
85. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
87. Grow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption.
89. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
90. Sprinkled with seed.
91. Inject into the vein.
93. A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another.
94. A special way of doing something.
95. Tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood.
96. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.

DOWN

1. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
2. A genus of European owls.
3. A hanging fold of loose skin on an elderly person's neck.
4. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. A whetstone made of fine gritstone.
9. Jordan's port.
10. An organized body of related information.
11. Without moral standards or principles.
12. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
13. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
14. Obvious and dull.
15. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
21. Filled or abounding with clouds.
23. An active volcano in northern Iran.
25. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
29. German statesman who served as chancellor of Germany (born in 1918).
30. Marked by refinement in taste and manners.
33. Genus of woody Asiatic vines.
34. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. English poet.
40. Cause to disbelieve.
42. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
43. Thick cushion used as a seat.
44. In an extreme degree.
46. The commonest type of solidified lava.
48. (of e.g. celestial bodies) Above the horizon.
51. An African amulet.
54. (zoology) Relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida.
63. An irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch.
64. Shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials.
65. A whetstone made of fine gritstone.
66. Any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior.
67. Any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages.
68. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
70. A twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven.
71. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
72. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
75. Small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward.
78. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
79. Fastened with stitches.
81. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
82. Lower in esteem.
83. Being one more than seven.
84. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
86. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
88. Covered or soaked with a liquid such as water.
92. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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