Crossword Puzzle Number 2472 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
4. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
8. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
12. A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck.
16. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
17. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
18. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
19. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
20. The month following March and preceding May.
21. Control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft.
23. French operatic composer (1799-1862).
25. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. The hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn.
29. (a dated Briticism) A serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced.
30. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. A hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter.
33. A slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription.
35. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
36. The brightest star in Virgo.
40. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
42. (prosody) Of or consisting of dactyls.
45. A Loloish language.
47. Of or relating to the kidneys.
49. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
50. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
55. Showing great reverence for god.
57. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
58. Any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries.
60. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
61. Experiencing a sudden sense of danger.
64. A Baltic-Finnic language.
66. A deep bow.
70. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
71. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
72. The fifth day of the week.
73. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
81. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
83. Any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division.
85. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
86. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
89. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
91. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
92. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
93. (of animals) Fully developed.
95. Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages.
96. The month following February and preceding April.
97. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
98. A native American tent.
99. Employed in accomplishing something.
100. Used of a single unit or thing.

DOWN

1. Jordan's port.
2. Type genus of the family Lepadidae.
3. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
4. A young woman making her debut into society.
5. Subject to popular election.
6. A cravat with wide square ends.
7. Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule.
8. Meat from a domestic hog or pig.
9. Trade name of an antidiarrheal.
10. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
11. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
12. Type genus of the Balaenidae.
13. Upright in position or posture.
14. Actually being performed (or--for the audience--present) at the time of viewing.
15. (Welsh) Corresponds to Iris Ler.
22. Of or relating to anestrus.
24. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
26. A port city in southwestern Iran.
28. Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium.
32. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
37. A major victory by the Romans over the Macedonians in 168 BC.
38. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
39. Marked by diversity or difference.
41. (Old Testament) Samson's Philistine mistress who betrayed him by cutting off his hair and so deprived him of his strength.
43. (archaic) Of persons.
44. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
46. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
48. Of or in or relating to the nose.
53. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
54. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
56. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
59. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
62. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
63. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
65. Not weaned.
67. God of love and erotic desire.
68. Proceed or issue forth, as from a source.
69. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
74. (usually plural) The state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound.
75. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
76. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.
77. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
78. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
79. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
80. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
82. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
84. A very light brown.
87. Not reflecting light.
88. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
90. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
94. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).

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