Crossword Puzzle Number 2374 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A light touch or stroke.
4. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
9. A thin coat of water-base paint.
13. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
17. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
18. American novelist (1909-1955).
19. The basic unit of money in Romania.
20. Type genus of the Pandionidae.
22. High-pitched and sharp.
24. An informal term for a father.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. Being of the age 13 through 19.
33. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
36. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
39. Any competition.
40. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. Kauri pine.
44. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
47. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
50. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
51. A basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard).
53. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
54. In operation or operational.
55. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
58. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
60. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
62. United States film actress (born in Germany) who made many films with Josef von Sternberg and later was a successful cabaret star (1901-1992).
64. Hang loosely or laxly.
65. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
66. God of fire.
67. An Old World reptile family of Sauria.
70. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
72. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
73. A simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
79. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
80. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
86. An enclosed armored military vehicle.
90. Breed of large wiry-coated terrier bred in Yorkshire.
92. United States historian (1912-1989).
93. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
94. Type genus of the Anatidae.
95. Similar or related in quality or character.
97. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
98. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
99. A quantity of no importance.
100. One who works hard at boring tasks.
101. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).

DOWN

1. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. A vigorous blow.
4. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
5. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
6. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
7. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
8. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
9. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
10. Moving quickly and lightly.
11. English comic actor (1925-1980).
12. Capital of the state of Montana.
13. Late time of life.
14. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
15. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
21. Any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root.
23. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
26. An informal term for a father.
27. Relating to or consisting of or producing or resembling milk.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
32. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
34. Design anew, make a new design for.
35. The verbal act of urging on.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. A language spoken by a Malaysian people on Formosa.
42. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
43. African antelope with ridged curved horns.
45. Of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado n 1.
46. The football players who line up on the line of scrimmage.
48. A genus of Platalea.
49. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
52. Amphibians that resemble lizards.
56. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
57. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
59. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
61. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
63. Infusion of e.g. dried or fresh flowers or leaves.
68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
69. Low tufted white-woolly yellow-flowered herb of California.
70. Late time of life.
71. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
72. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
74. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
76. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
78. Ludicrously odd.
81. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
82. (Greek mythology) God of love.
83. Flat tableland with steep edges.
84. Not only so, but.
85. Any thick messy substance.
87. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
88. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
89. A rounded projection or protuberance.
91. A boy or man.
96. Unknown god.

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