Crossword Puzzle Number 2275 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
8. (of persons) Neat and smart in appearance.
12. Report or maintain.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. An architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness.
18. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
19. A sails-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere near Carina.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
23. Beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set.
24. Wasting of the body during a chronic disease.
26. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
28. Same in identity.
29. (slang) A batch of things that go together.
31. Genus of perennial North American herbs with aromatic usually cormous roots.
33. A drumbeat of bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters.
36. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
38. Smeared with something that soils or stains.
44. Make less active or intense.
45. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
47. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
50. A deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture).
51. A Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation.
54. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
55. Not in good physical or mental health.
56. 1/10 gram.
57. Of or relating to the Sioux people or their language and culture.
58. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
59. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
62. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
64. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
66. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
68. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
69. Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.
72. A genus of Cichlidae.
75. The sixth month of the civil year.
77. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
81. Lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind.
84. (euphemistic) "he is deceased".
87. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
88. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
90. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
91. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
92. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
94. Either of two large muscles of the chest.
96. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
97. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
98. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
99. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
100. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. Cry plaintively.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Being ten more than thirty.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. The protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes.
7. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
8. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
9. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
10. That is to say.
11. Any plant of the genus Gloriosa of tropical Africa and Asia.
12. Sacred text of Zoroastrianism.
13. Of or relating to the velum.
14. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
15. (British) A local tax on property (usually used in the plural).
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. Everything you own.
27. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
30. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
32. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
34. Able to walk about.
35. Any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts.
37. A member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire.
39. A light touch or stroke.
40. Former name for the order Crocodylia.
41. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
42. The seventh month of the civil year.
43. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
46. A cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way.
48. 16 ounces.
49. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
52. Morally degraded.
53. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
60. A person who rules or guides or inspires others.
61. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
63. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
65. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
67. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
70. Bearing or marked with a label or tag.
71. Up to the immediate present.
72. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
73. Having or covered with a lid or lids.
74. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
76. A black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning.
78. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
82. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
83. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
85. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
86. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
87. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
89. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
93. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
95. A state in north central United States.

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