Crossword Puzzle Number 2440 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. Goddess of fate.
16. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
17. First in order of importance.
18. Highly excited.
19. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
20. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
21. Of or relating to the state of marriage.
23. Read anew.
25. One who practices magic or sorcery.
27. A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
29. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
30. A historical region of Croatia on the Adriatic Sea.
31. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
33. The sound of (the chanter of) a bagpipe v 1.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Orudis or Orudis KT or Oruvail).
41. Not out.
42. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
47. An active and efficient cause.
48. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
50. A narrow way or road.
52. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
54. A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland.
55. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
56. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
58. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
59. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
60. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
62. Either of two muscles of the abdomen and pelvis that flex the trunk and rotate the thigh.
64. Excessively fat.
66. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
67. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
68. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
70. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
71. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
73. Small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail.
76. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.
77. Located or originating from above.
79. Ground snakes.
81. Relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body.
84. A young woman.
86. A final crushing defeat.
92. To put down by force or authority.
94. A humorous anecdote or remark.
95. In the near future.
96. Excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted.
98. Type genus of the Majidae.
99. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
100. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
101. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
102. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
103. Water frozen in the solid state.

DOWN

1. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
2. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
3. United States poet and critic (1916-1986).
4. Any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus.
5. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
6. Distributed or spread over a considerable extent.
7. A garment worn on the upper half of the body.
8. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
9. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
10. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
11. 3rd largest island in the world.
12. How long something has existed.
13. Employed in accomplishing something.
14. Having been read.
15. An informal term for a father.
22. Jordan's port.
24. To make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation.
26. English author.
28. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
32. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
34. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. Having accumulated or become more intense.
39. (medicine) Relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision.
40. Any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large evil-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers.
43. Susceptible to being led or directed.
44. Strike sharply.
45. Someone who reasons logically.
46. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
49. Having a dusky brownish gray color.
51. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
53. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
57. Of or relating to or near the coccyx.
61. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
63. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
65. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
69. A great raja.
72. Derivative of opium.
73. Any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus.
74. Relating to or produced by ergot.
75. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
78. A word that serves as the predicate of a sentence.
80. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
82. The capital city of Vietnam.
83. An autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century.
85. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
87. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
88. Avatar of Vishnu.
89. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
90. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
91. American novelist (1909-1955).
93. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
97. A state in New England.

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