Crossword Puzzle Number 2283 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. An inhabitant of Lappland.
8. A group of countries in special alliance.
12. The act of scanning.
16. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
17. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
18. The 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
19. Flat and uninspiring.
20. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
21. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
23. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
28. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
29. A large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas.
31. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
33. United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947).
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
41. A small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant.
45. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
46. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
47. Flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water.
51. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
52. Genus of perennial wildflowers of North American plains and prairies.
56. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform.
57. Belonging to or governing a diocese n.
58. Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations.
59. Of or relating to or characteristic of Athens or its inhabitants.
60. Blood disorder in which there is excess fluid volume compared with the cell volume of the blood.
62. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
63. (Greek mythology) A sea nymph transformed into a sea monster who lived on one side of a narrow strait.
66. A knife resembling a cleaver.
67. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
69. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
71. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
72. A person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture.
77. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
80. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
81. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
85. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
88. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
90. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
91. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
92. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
93. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
94. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
95. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
96. With rapid movements.
97. A small cake leavened with yeast.
98. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.

DOWN

1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
4. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
5. (of farmland) Capable of being farmed productively.
6. Of or relating to punishment.
7. A genus of Ploceidae.
8. (informal) Exceptionally good.
9. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
10. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
11. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
12. Of or relating to or near the sternum.
13. Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977).
14. Type genus of the Amiidae.
15. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
22. Of or relating to or containing basalt.
24. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
26. Become adolescent.
30. Used of a single unit or thing.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
35. Subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience).
37. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
39. Marked by harshly abusive criticism.
40. Mediation by an umpire.
42. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
43. Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars.
44. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
48. Tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americas.
49. A bar of sand.
50. Indicator provided by the stationary arm whose shadow indicates the time on the sundial.
53. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
54. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
55. Of or relating to the Iberian peninsula or its inhabitants.
61. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
64. Gull family.
65. 16 ounces.
68. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
70. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.
73. A minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem.
74. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
75. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
76. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
78. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
79. Make an etching of.
82. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
83. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite.
84. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
86. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
87. A tight-fitting headdress.
89. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.

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