Crossword Puzzle Number 2290 (Large Grid)

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1. Crowd or pack to capacity.
5. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
9. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
13. The compass point that is one point west of due south.
16. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
17. (informal) Very tired.
18. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
19. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
20. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
21. A bottle with a stopper.
23. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
25. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
26. A threadlike anatomical structure or chainlike series of cells.
27. United States photographer remembered for her portraits of rural workers during the Depression (1895-1965).
28. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
30. Muslim name for God.
31. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
33. A member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
39. 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.
42. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
46. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
49. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
50. A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter.
52. A large and densely populated urban area.
53. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
54. (chemistry) Being or containing an acid.
59. Of or relating to or characteristic of Kashmir or its people or culture.
61. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
63. The emotion of hate.
64. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
65. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
66. Given freely especially to a cause or fund.
69. A doctor's degree in religion.
70. A state in midwestern United States.
72. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
73. Prolific English writer of detective stories (1890-1976).
76. 1 species.
80. Not only so, but.
81. An ache localized in the middle or inner ear.
83. A native-born Israeli.
86. A procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file.
88. (Spanish) Saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken.
90. An associate degree in applied science.
91. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
92. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
94. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
95. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
96. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
97. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
98. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
99. Liquid excretory product.

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1. The part of the human body between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.
2. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
3. A city in northern India.
4. A unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
6. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
7. A chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia halfway between New Guinea and Japan.
8. (British) Seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater.
9. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
10. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
11. Tag the base runner to get him out.
12. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
13. Leap. jerk, bang (dialectal).
14. God of wealth and love.
15. Someone who sends a telegram.
22. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
24. The capital of Croatia.
29. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
32. Line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) toward the enemy.
34. The sixth month of the civil year.
35. Make keen or more acute.
37. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
40. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
41. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
43. A large bonnet that shades the face.
44. Man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon.
45. Be earlier in time.
47. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
48. A radioactive transuranic element.
51. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
55. Any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages.
56. A beam made usually of steel.
57. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
58. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
60. The amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface.
62. A blind god.
67. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
68. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
71. Common house and field crickets.
74. Detected or perceived by the sense of hearing.
75. Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity).
77. (Greek mythology) The beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris.
78. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
79. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
80. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
82. Type genus of the Apidae.
84. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
85. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
87. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
89. A local computer network for communication between computers.
90. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
93. A state in the Rocky Mountains.

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