Crossword Puzzle Number 2398 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
4. The face of a timepiece.
8. Anything that provides inspiration for later work.
12. Used of physical coldness.
16. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
17. At or constituting a border or edge.
18. The capital of Western Samoa.
19. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
20. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
21. A short moral story (often with animal characters).
23. A professional killer who uses a gun.
24. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
26. Of or relating to or characteristic of Israel or its people.
27. A humorous anecdote or remark.
28. A woman religious.
29. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
30. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
32. Make amendments to.
34. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
37. German arms manufacturer and son of Friedrich Krupp.
40. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
43. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
44. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
45. Humble request for help.
47. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
49. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.
51. A motley assortment of things.
53. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
54. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
55. Used of a single unit or thing.
60. Literature in metrical form.
62. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
63. (used informally) Very small.
64. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
66. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
68. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
69. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
70. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
72. Web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas.
75. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
76. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
83. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
87. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
88. A country on the island of Jamaica.
91. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
92. Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc..
93. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
95. The site of an archeological exploration.
96. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
97. English physician who in retirement compiled a well-known thesaurus (1779-1869).
98. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
99. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

DOWN

1. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
4. Elliptical use of "depend on".
5. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
6. Roman general who commanded the fleet that defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium (63-12 BC).
7. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
8. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
9. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
10. A state in New England.
11. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
12. Someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience.
13. Brass that looks like gold.
14. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
15. Having finished or arrived at completion.
22. The Creator.
25. A historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan.
31. A state in northwestern North America.
33. Of or relating to or characteristic of Milan or its people.
35. A city in southeastern Spain.
36. Type genus of the Gentianaceae.
38. Genus of deciduous and evergreen east Asian trees and shrubs widely cultivated as ornamentals for their white flowers and red fruits.
39. Cause to be paralyzed and immobile.
41. One millionth of a gram.
42. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
46. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
48. An azure blue semiprecious stone.
50. Read anew.
52. Used of a single unit or thing.
56. A small cake leavened with yeast.
57. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
58. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
59. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
61. The 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
65. 10 grams.
67. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
71. Having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle.
73. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
74. 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.
77. In bed.
78. God of love and erotic desire.
79. Slightly open.
80. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
81. A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters.
82. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
84. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
85. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
86. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
89. A rapid bustling commotion.
90. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
94. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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