Crossword Puzzle Number 2249 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
4. Disposed of as useless.
9. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. Used of a single unit or thing.
17. City in Sudan.
18. Tropical Asian starlings.
19. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
20. Either of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus.
22. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
24. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
25. A language of Australian aborigines.
26. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
27. God of wealth and love.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
32. An informal term for a father.
34. An associate degree in nursing.
35. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
37. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
39. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
41. A lapel on a woman's garment.
45. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
49. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
52. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
53. The cardinal number that is the sum of six and one.
55. Type genus of the Loganiaceae.
57. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
59. A picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide.
60. Enclosed in a basin.
62. A brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure.
65. A bachelor's degree in theology.
66. The god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami.
67. (of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes reproduction".
69. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
70. English poet (1618-1857).
71. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
72. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
74. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
75. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
77. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
79. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
84. Haddock usually baked but sometimes broiled with lots of butter.
90. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
91. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
92. (statistics) Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution.
94. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
96. (Irish) Ancient Irish god (probably a god of the sun).
97. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
98. A person to whom money is paid.
99. A neutral middle vowel.
100. A strong emotion.
101. The capital and largest city of Japan.
102. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
103. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
104. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

DOWN

1. Having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified.
2. A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another.
3. Tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail.
4. Unusually short.
5. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
6. A small horizontal rope between the shrouds of a sailing ship.
7. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
8. A genus of Ploceidae.
9. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
10. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
11. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
12. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
13. Spanish painter best known for his portraits (1746-1828).
14. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
15. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
21. English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596).
23. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
28. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
31. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
33. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
36. A drug used as a circulatory and respiratory stimulant.
38. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
40. Any of several purple or white wine grapes used especially for burgundies and champagnes.
42. A state in the eastern United States.
43. Of or in or relating to the nose.
44. A republic in northwestern Africa on the coast of the Atlantic.
46. Relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco.
47. Any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers.
48. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.
50. Ancient Persian god of light and truth.
51. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
54. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
56. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
58. One of the players on the line of scrimmage.
61. The act of preventing the opposition from scoring (in sports).
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
64. (of speed) Having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level.
68. Diving ducks of North America having a bluish-gray bill.
73. Genus of Australian ladybugs.
74. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
76. (of eggs) No longer edible.
78. Of or like a cecum.
80. A resort city in western Florida.
81. First in order of importance.
82. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
83. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
85. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
86. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
87. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
88. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
89. No longer in your possession or control.
90. A public promotion of some product or service.
93. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
95. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
96. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.

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