Crossword Puzzle Number 2437 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
4. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
9. German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969).
13. Inquire about.
16. Seed of a pea plant.
17. The rotating armature of a motor or generator.
18. A Russian river.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
21. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
22. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
23. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
24. By bad luck.
26. North Atlantic sea poacher.
27. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
28. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
29. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
32. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
33. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
35. Being nine more than forty.
36. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
38. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
42. The imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC.
44. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
45. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
48. Wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India.
49. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
51. A city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound south of Seattle.
54. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
55. An elaborate song for solo voice.
56. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
58. Pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute.
61. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet.
63. Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement.
65. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
66. Water frozen in the solid state.
67. A person who participates in a meeting.
68. The address where a person lives.
70. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
73. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
75. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
76. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
77. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
79. A port city in southwestern Iran.
84. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
89. Garments (clothes or linens) that are to be (or have been) ironed.
93. A genus of Mustelidae.
96. The cry made by sheep.
97. Highly excited.
98. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
99. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
100. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
101. A narrow way or road.
102. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
103. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
104. Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color.

DOWN

1. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
2. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
3. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
4. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
5. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
6. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
7. Be interwoven or interconnected.
8. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
9. Scandinavian punch made of claret and aquavit with spices and raisins and orange peel and sugar.
10. An official or legal cancellation.
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. The face or front of a building.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A fraudulent business scheme.
15. God of love and erotic desire.
25. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
28. Scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms.
30. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
31. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
34. Any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae.
37. Remove from the crate.
39. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
40. Essential equal to suborder Myomorpha with the Dipodidae excluded.
41. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
43. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
46. Distilled rather than fermented.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
52. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
53. A Bantu language spoken in southern coastal Tanzania.
57. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
59. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
60. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
62. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
64. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
69. (Irish) Goddess.
71. Violently angry and destructive behavior.
72. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
74. Epithet of Siva.
75. The face or front of a building.
78. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
80. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
81. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
82. A state in midwestern United States.
83. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
85. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
86. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
87. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
88. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
90. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
91. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
92. A quantity that is added.
94. (British) Informal term for information.
95. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
96. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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