Crossword Puzzle Number 2291 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
4. A desert in southern Israel.
9. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
13. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
16. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
17. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
18. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. Having the color of caramel.
22. Covered with scabs.
24. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
25. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
26. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
28. A tenant in someone's house.
30. The organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract.
32. A social division of (usually preliterate) people.
34. Omnivorous mammal of Central and South America.
35. Of or relating to the spine or spinal cord.
37. Tending or intended to rectify or improve.
39. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
40. A state in northwestern North America.
41. (Greek mythology) The beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris.
42. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
46. (botany) Especially of petals or leaves in bud.
49. English architect (1746-1813).
51. An island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Equatorial Guinea.
52. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
53. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
55. Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down v 1.
57. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
58. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
63. A native or inhabitant of Scotland.
64. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
65. An oil port in southern Iraq.
66. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
67. Made of fir or pine.
68. The longest river of Asia.
72. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
74. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
75. The act of escaping physically.
78. Tag the base runner to get him out.
80. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
81. Someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication.
85. Singing jazz.
88. Pale gray.
91. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
92. An Eskimo hut.
93. An accidental happening.
96. Unwind or untwist.
97. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
98. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
99. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
101. Weapons considered collectively.
102. How long something has existed.
103. A French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750).
104. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
105. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. Italian poet (1569-1625).
4. A person with the same name as another.
5. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
6. Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold.
7. The square of a body of any size of type.
8. French painter (born in Hungary) who was a pioneer of op art (1908-1997).
9. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
10. Furnished or strengthened with ribs.
11. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
12. Small genus of delicate mossy bog plants having white or violet flowers.
13. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
14. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
15. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
21. Pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies).
23. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
27. (used with `with' or in combination) Covered by or as if by something scattered over or on.
29. (trademark) An antacid.
31. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
33. A region including the bottom of the sea and the littoral zones.
36. Widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers.
38. Being nine more than ninety.
43. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
44. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
45. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
47. Commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison.
48. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
50. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
54. The back side of the neck.
56. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
59. Natural qualities or talents.
60. An associate degree in nursing.
61. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
62. Glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust.
69. A hole through which you put your arm and where a sleeve can be attached.
70. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
71. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
72. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
73. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
76. A member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers.
77. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
79. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
82. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
83. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
84. A major city of northeastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas river.
86. 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.
87. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
89. (Greek mythology) A river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls.
90. A soft silvery metallic element.
94. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
95. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
100. Half the width of an em.

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