Crossword Puzzle Number 2243 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
4. God of wealth and love.
9. Having relatively few calories.
13. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
16. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
17. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
18. The basic unit of money in Peru.
19. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
20. The fatty flesh of eel.
21. A discussant who offers an example or a reason or a proof.
23. King of Wessex.
24. Goddess of the heavens and married love.
26. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
27. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. The basic unit of money in Romania.
31. Being nine more than ninety.
34. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
36. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
39. An associate degree in nursing.
40. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
42. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
46. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
48. 16 ounces.
50. Preceding all others in time or space or degree.
51. A cooperative unit.
53. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
54. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
56. The square of a body of any size of type.
57. Attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates.
58. Usually large hard-shelled seed.
62. A small island.
63. The father of your father or mother.
65. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
66. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
67. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
68. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
71. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
72. Genus of western United States annuals with showy yellow or white flowers.
73. (of champagne) Extremely dry.
76. A Mid-Atlantic state.
79. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
87. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
88. English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975).
91. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
93. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
94. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
95. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
97. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
98. Serving as an essential component.
99. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
100. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
101. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).

DOWN

1. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
2. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
3. Any cognitive content held as true.
4. (informal) Exceptionally good.
5. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
6. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
7. French post-impressionist painter who worked in the South Pacific (1848-1903).
8. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. Not out.
11. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
12. United States theologian (born in Germany) (1886-1965).
13. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
14. A particular environment or walk of life.
15. An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event.
22. English essayist (1775-1834).
25. An elderly man.
30. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
32. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
33. An ancient area of Eurasia extending from the Black Sea to the Aral Sea that was populated by Scythians from the eighth to the fourth century BC.
35. Wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Spread or daub over.
41. (medicine) Chilly.
43. A small tree.
44. A gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile.
45. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
47. Clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures.
49. Obvious and dull.
52. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
55. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
59. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
60. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
61. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
64. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
69. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
70. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
74. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
75. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
77. Israeli general and statesman (1915-1981).
78. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
80. A French abbot.
81. Full of zest or vigor.
82. A disorderly outburst or tumult.
83. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
84. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
85. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
86. Type genus of the Anatidae.
89. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
90. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
92. A light touch or stroke.
96. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.

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