Crossword Puzzle Number 2393 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. Gull-like jaeger of northern seas.
8. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
12. A unit of length equal to 1760 yards.
16. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
17. Derive or receive pleasure from.
18. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
19. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
20. 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.
22. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
24. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
26. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
27. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
29. Register formally.
30. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
32. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
33. An extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America).
35. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
38. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
42. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
43. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
46. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
47. Informal terms for a mother.
48. A hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward.
50. A woman sahib.
51. (of persons) Neat and smart in appearance.
53. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
55. Cricket frogs.
57. A city in central southwestern Iran.
58. An illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor.
59. (Greek mythology) The god of the underworld in ancient mythology.
60. The force of workers available.
61. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
63. A radioactive transuranic element.
65. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
66. Of or relating to or involving an area.
68. Type genus of the Lycaenidae.
72. Any thick messy substance.
73. Small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit.
74. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
76. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
77. A violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family.
80. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
82. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
84. Extremely robust.
85. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
87. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
91. Marked by correspondence or resemblance.
93. Absent without permission.
94. Of or relating to or located near a hilum.
95. A thin strip (wood or metal).
96. Any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria.
99. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
100. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
101. Being or having an unknown or unnamed source.
102. Colored or impregnated with dye.

DOWN

1. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
2. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
3. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
4. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
5. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
6. The act of using.
7. Jordan's port.
8. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
9. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
10. A form of address for a man.
11. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
12. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
13. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
14. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
15. The twelfth month of the civil year.
21. Composed of or covered with relatively large particles.
23. West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood.
25. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
28. Of or relating to the Rhine River and the lands adjacent to it.
31. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
34. An animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning.
36. A bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases.
37. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
39. Immersing the body in water or sunshine.
40. High status importance owing to marked superiority.
41. A city in southern Japan on Kyushu.
44. Affect with wonder.
45. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
49. A complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way.
52. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
54. Given or having a specified name.
56. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
62. A genus of herbs of the family Cruciferae.
64. Free from risk or danger.
67. Genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions.
68. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
69. Noisy talk.
70. Reduce to ashes.
71. Proboscis monkeys.
72. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
75. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
78. A note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it.
79. Relating to or characteristic of people of Rome.
81. A fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together.
82. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
83. (Scotland) A landowner.
86. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote.
88. Soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
89. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
90. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
92. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
97. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
98. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.

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