Crossword Puzzle Number 2320 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
4. Elegant and stylish.
8. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
12. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
16. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
17. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
18. A city in east central Texas.
19. Affected manners intended to impress others.
20. Depressing in character or appearance.
22. Avens of Virginia having pale or greenish yellow flowers.
24. Having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
27. Having a strong distinctive fragrance.
29. Belonging to some prior time.
32. Any of various orchids of the genus Bletia having pseudo-bulbs and erect leafless racemes of large purple or pink flowers.
34. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine (trade names Advil and Motrin and Nuprin) used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an analgesic and antipyretic.
36. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
40. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
43. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
44. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
46. Something that follows something else.
49. A festival featuring African-American culture.
52. An informal term for a father.
54. A deep bow.
57. (medieval Europe) A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord.
58. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
59. Informal terms for a mother.
60. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
61. Make less active or intense.
62. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
64. A Mid-Atlantic state.
65. An advanced law degree.
67. A public promotion of some product or service.
68. 1/1000 gram.
71. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
74. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
77. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
78. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
81. (prefix) Within.
83. Very great.
88. Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers.
90. English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901).
91. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
93. Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands.
94. Using speech rather than writing.
95. A remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison.
97. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
98. Produced by a manufacturing process.
99. An important dogsled race run annually on the Iditarod Trail.
100. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. English monk and scholar (672-735).
2. (of persons) Neat and smart in appearance.
3. Not shod.
4. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
5. Ground snakes.
6. That is to say.
7. A place where taxis park while awaiting customers.
8. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
9. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
10. Tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries.
11. The rotating armature of a motor or generator.
12. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
13. A jaunty rhythm in music.
14. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
15. One thousandth of a second.
21. Italian painter and engraver noted for his frescoes (1431-1506).
23. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
28. The month following February and preceding April.
30. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
31. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
33. On the side away from the wind.
35. Having accumulated or become more intense.
37. The largest city of Cameroon.
38. African antelopes.
39. Being connected or associated.
41. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
42. A unit of pressure.
45. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
47. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
48. The French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec.
50. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
51. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
53. A bluish shade of green.
55. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
56. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
63. Completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose.
64. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
66. A master's degree in fine arts.
69. God of the earth.
70. A large fleet.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.
75. (prefix) Within.
76. A Nilotic language.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
82. Two items of the same kind.
84. Large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.
85. A state of agitated irritation.
86. (Roman mythology) God of love.
87. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
88. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
89. A thrusting blow with a knife.
92. Having leadership guidance.
96. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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