Crossword Puzzle Number 2282 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
4. Wasting of the body during a chronic disease.
9. God of fire.
13. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
16. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
17. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
18. Rum cut with water.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
20. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
22. Cut the head of.
24. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
25. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
26. The range within which a voice can be heard.
29. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
31. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
33. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
41. Not very intelligent or interested in culture.
45. Cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive.
47. In or of the present month.
48. Favoring one person or side over another.
49. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
51. A notice of someone's death.
52. Disparaging terms for the common people.
53. Arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks.
54. The force of workers available.
56. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
58. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
59. Brittle flat bread eaten at Passover.
61. A state in New England.
62. The capital and largest city of Greece.
64. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
66. A bachelor's degree in religion.
67. Half the width of an em.
68. A state in northwestern North America.
69. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
72. The academic world.
74. English essayist (1775-1834).
77. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
79. Used of a single unit or thing.
80. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
83. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
86. A city of central China.
90. Small creeping evergreen shrubs.
92. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
94. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
95. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
96. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
98. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
99. The bill in a restaurant.
100. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
101. Jordan's port.
102. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
103. (Babylonian) The sky god.

DOWN

1. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
2. North American yellow-breasted songbirds.
3. Make amends for.
4. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
5. American dramatist (1928- ).
6. Common Indian weaverbird.
7. The square of a body of any size of type.
8. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. Of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks.
11. 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.
12. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
13. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
14. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
15. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
21. United States aviator who (with Richard E. Byrd) piloted the first flight over the North Pole (1890-1928).
23. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
27. Violently angry and destructive behavior.
28. Virility drug (trade name Viagra) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. A ray of sunlight.
35. Strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise.
36. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
37. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
38. 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.
39. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
40. Small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button.
42. The first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac.
43. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
44. The event of dying or departure from life.
46. Filled with a great quantity.
50. (geology) Used of the earliest known rocks.
55. God of death.
57. A quantity of no importance.
60. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
63. A numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number.
65. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
70. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
71. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
73. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
74. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
75. Any oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents.
76. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ireland or its people.
78. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
81. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
82. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
84. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
85. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
87. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
88. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
89. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
91. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
93. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
97. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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