Crossword Puzzle Number 2277 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
4. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
9. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. A flexible container with a single opening.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. Fill with high spirits.
18. By bad luck.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
21. 20 aspers equal 1 kuru.
22. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
23. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
24. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
26. Bearing a name.
29. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
31. Type genus of the Artamidae.
32. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
38. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
40. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
45. An expression of greeting.
46. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
47. An arc-shaped whitish deposit sometimes seen in the cornea.
49. Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.
50. Any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae.
52. Slices of bread that have been toasted.
53. Pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment.
54. Any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers.
55. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
56. The branch of medicine concerned with the feet.
59. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
60. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
62. Tag the base runner to get him out.
63. The middle of the day.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. Selected as the best.
68. Heal or recover.
69. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
72. Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910).
73. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
78. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
83. Obvious and dull.
87. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
89. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
91. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
92. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
93. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
95. Praise, glorify, or honor.
97. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
98. A doctor's degree in education.
99. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
100. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
101. A bachelor's degree in theology.

DOWN

1. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
2. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
3. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
4. Not only so, but.
5. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
6. Flesh of a castrated male chicken.
7. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
8. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
9. The visual percept of a region.
10. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
11. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
12. The sign language used in the United States.
13. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
14. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
15. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
25. A tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave.
27. The mother of Jesus.
28. A conspicuous constellation in the northern hemisphere.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants.
36. The father of your father or mother.
37. In an innate manner.
39. Cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill).
41. Of animals.
42. (of snakes and eels) Naturally footless.
43. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.
44. (informal British usage) Aggravation or aggression.
48. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
51. Not tied.
57. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
58. Not very intelligent or interested in culture.
61. Twist or braid together, interlace.
64. Of or relating to the palm of the hand or to the area at the base of the thumb.
67. A radioactive transuranic element.
70. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
71. A deep bow.
74. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
75. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
76. A telegram sent abroad.
77. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
79. On or toward the lee.
80. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
81. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
82. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
84. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
85. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
86. Young sheep.
88. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
90. A preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing.
94. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
96. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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