Crossword Puzzle Number 2260 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
4. (British) A cup of tea.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. State in northeastern India.
18. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
20. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
21. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
23. Well-seasoned rice (with nuts or currants of minced lamb) simmered or braised in stock.
25. Coffee-flavored liqueur made in Mexico.
27. (New Testament) Supposed brother of St James.
29. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
30. United States poet (1884-1933).
31. Of or relating to or characteristic of Uganda or its people.
34. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
36. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
37. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
38. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
44. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
47. On or toward the lee.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
49. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
50. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
52. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
53. The father of your father or mother.
57. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
59. Characteristic of false pride.
60. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
61. European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers.
63. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
65. A fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant.
67. Unstratified soil deposited by a glacier.
69. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
70. A deep bow.
72. A city in southern Finland.
74. Tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall.
75. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
76. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
78. Russian mathematician (1856-1922).
83. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
87. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
88. A ridge that forms a seam between two parts.
91. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
93. The cry made by sheep.
94. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
95. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
96. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
97. Top part of an apron.
98. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
99. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
100. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
101. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.

DOWN

1. A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities.
2. A city in northern India.
3. An expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing.
4. Marked by blithe unconcern.
5. Goddess of dawn.
6. A unit of pressure.
7. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
8. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
9. An informal term for a father.
10. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
11. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
12. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
13. A large fleet.
14. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
15. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
22. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
24. Tolerant or lenient.
26. Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers.
28. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
32. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
33. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
35. Type genus of the Gelechiidae.
39. Mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs.
40. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
41. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
42. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
43. A swaggering show of courage.
45. Tropical genus of small trees or shrubs.
46. An antidepressant drug that blocks the reuptake of norepinephrine.
51. (music) Characterized by avoidance of traditional Western tonality.
54. (of eggs) No longer edible.
55. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
56. An organ in its earliest stage of development.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
62. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
64. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
66. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
68. A tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression.
69. A unit of pressure.
71. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
73. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
74. A public promotion of some product or service.
77. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
79. In bed.
80. A sudden short attack.
81. Either of two large muscles of the chest.
82. On, to, or at the top.
84. A French abbot.
85. Anything that serves as an enticement.
86. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
89. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
90. Step on it.
92. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.

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