Crossword Puzzle Number 2428 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves).
4. A Loloish language.
8. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
12. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
18. Avatar of Vishnu.
19. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
20. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
22. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
24. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
25. The sixth month of the civil year.
26. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
28. Goat grass.
30. In an affable manner.
32. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
33. Stem of plants of the Gramineae.
36. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
41. Largest known toad species.
42. A great raja.
44. Informal terms for a mother.
45. Procumbent or spreading juniper.
47. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
48. At a specific prior time.
50. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
52. Any of various small biting flies.
54. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
55. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
56. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
58. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
60. A bar of sand.
63. Chief port of Yemen.
64. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
65. A state in east central United States.
66. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
67. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
72. Overeat or eat immodestly.
74. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
76. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
78. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
79. Not done.
81. A female gametocyte that develops into an ovum after two meiotic divisions.
87. A character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote.
90. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
91. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
93. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
94. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
95. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
96. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
97. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
98. By bad luck.

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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. Toward the mouth or oral region.
3. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
6. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
9. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
10. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
11. A special way of doing something.
12. The time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside.
13. Of a leaf shape.
14. The short weak cry of a young bird.
15. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
21. Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages.
23. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
27. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
29. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
31. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
34. Of or relating to or characteristic of Uganda or its people.
35. An Anatolian language.
37. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
38. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
39. Coming into view.
40. Small family of usually tropical butterflies.
43. A motley assortment of things.
46. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
49. Someone who listens attentively.
51. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
53. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
57. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
59. Edge tool used in shaving.
61. The smaller of the two satellites of Mars.
62. The Indonesian language of the people of Bali.
68. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
69. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
70. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
71. Marked by a rhythmical cadence.
73. Having open interstices or resembling a web.
75. The craniometric point that is the most prominent point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance).
76. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
77. Treated with some kind of application.
78. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
80. Catch sight of.
82. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
83. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
84. The food served and eaten at one time.
85. A small cake leavened with yeast.
86. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
88. Fiddler crabs.
89. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
92. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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