Crossword Puzzle Number 2257 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The last (12th) month of the year.
4. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia.
8. A river in western Asia.
12. Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail.
16. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
17. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
18. Extremely robust.
19. In bed.
20. A can with a long nozzle to apply oil to machinery.
22. French playwright (1791-1861).
24. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
25. Type genus of the Majidae.
26. Characterized by divine or godlike nature.
27. German arms manufacturer and inventor of a repeating rifle and pistol (1838-1914).
29. Divulge information or secrets.
31. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
32. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
40. God of death.
41. (Greek mythology) A maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers.
45. (legal terminology) The Latin word for wife.
46. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
47. East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks.
48. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
49. A polite name for any woman.
52. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
54. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise.
55. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
57. Goddess of dawn.
60. 1 species.
62. A white trivalent metallic element.
63. Fallow deer.
65. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
66. A convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse.
67. A tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia.
69. An ancient region on the coast of western Asia Minor.
71. Someone who has retired from active working.
73. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
75. God of war and sky.
76. Make small marks into the surface of.
78. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
79. A state in midwestern United States.
81. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
84. Be earlier in time.
89. By bad luck.
90. (of groups of people) Tending to travel and change settlements frequently.
91. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
92. A proportion multiplied by 100.
94. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
96. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
97. An associate degree in applied science.
98. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
99. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
100. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. An unpleasant or disastrous destiny.
2. English essayist (1775-1834).
3. A degree or grade of excellence or worth.
4. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
5. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
6. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
7. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
8. An island republic in the west central Pacific just south of the equator.
9. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
10. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
11. A deficiency of red blood cells.
12. (an Irish term of address expressing affection) Darling.
13. Cause to be embarrassed.
14. Being nothing more than specified.
15. A European river.
21. A city is southern Alberta.
23. A radioactive transuranic element.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
33. Stimulating evacuation of feces.
34. The exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders.
35. (formal) Ordinary and not refined.
36. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
37. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
38. An Iranian language spoken in Pakistan and Iran and Afghanistan and Russia and the Persian gulf.
39. Deciduous shrub widely cultivated for its white or pink or red flowers.
42. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
43. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
44. (Babylonian) Goddess of healing and consort of Ninurta.
50. Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods.
51. A decree that prohibits something.
53. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
56. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
58. Treated with contempt.
59. A planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky.
61. Inflammation of the gums.
64. A master's degree in library science.
68. In a moody manner.
69. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
70. Comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia.
71. Being nothing more than specified.
72. Normal relaxed breathing.
74. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
77. Of or like a cecum.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. Jordan's port.
82. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
83. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
85. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
86. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
87. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
88. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
93. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
94. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
95. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.

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