Crossword Puzzle Number 2423 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The tenth month of the Hindu calendar.
4. Located farther aft.
9. With no effort to conceal.
13. The act of using.
16. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
17. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
18. In bed.
19. Semiformal evening dress for men.
20. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
22. Similar or related in quality or character.
23. The cry made by sheep.
25. The basic unit of money in Botswana.
26. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
28. Foul with waste matter.
30. Belonging to some prior time.
32. An elaborate representation of scenes from history etc.
33. British choreographer (1906-1988).
38. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
39. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
40. Being nine more than forty.
43. Having been read.
46. Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928).
49. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
51. Informal terms for a mother.
52. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
53. A drug (trade name Tagamet) used to treat peptic ulcers by decreasing the secretion of stomach acid.
55. Filled with a great quantity.
57. An analgesic for mild pain.
59. Formerly a gold coin of various European countries.
61. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
62. A strong emotion.
63. Injured by bites or stings.
64. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
65. Being two more than fifty.
66. The face of a timepiece.
68. A bluish shade of green.
70. Indicating the most important performer or role.
73. A radioactive transuranic element.
74. A public promotion of some product or service.
75. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
77. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
79. Heard through another rather than directly.
83. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
85. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
86. A locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism.
88. Neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front.
90. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
93. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
96. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
97. Elder brother of Krishna.
99. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
100. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
101. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
102. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

DOWN

1. Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce).
2. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
3. The second great battle of the American Civil War (1862).
4. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
5. A priest who served a particular deity in ancient Rome.
6. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
7. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
8. Type genus of the Ranidae.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
12. A doctor's degree in religion.
13. A city in central New York.
14. A republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea.
15. Praise, glorify, or honor.
21. The site of three famous battles among Greek city-states.
24. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
27. Inversion in the second of two parallel phrases.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. Used of physical coldness.
34. Somewhat arid.
35. Water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs.
36. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
37. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
41. The loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign).
42. Inflammation of the nose and throat with increased production of mucus.
44. 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.
45. Dress like a dandy.
47. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
48. Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain.
50. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
54. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
56. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
58. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
60. A criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it.
67. Gull family.
68. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
69. Tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries.
70. Type genus of the Ranidae.
71. A member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California.
72. An amoeba-like protozoan with a chitinous shell resembling an umbrella.
73. A city in central New York.
76. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
78. American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818).
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
80. A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.
81. Marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact.
82. Disposed of as useless.
83. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
84. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
87. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
89. The sixth month of the civil year.
91. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
92. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
94. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
95. The bill in a restaurant.
98. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
99. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.

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