Crossword Puzzle Number 2474 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
9. A notice of someone's death.
13. The compass point that is one point west of due south.
16. A toilet in England.
17. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
18. Any competition.
19. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
20. A strong emotion.
21. Jordan's port.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
24. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
26. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn.
28. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
31. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
36. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
39. A resident of Iowa.
42. A male relative.
46. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
47. (Greek mythology) An Athenian inventor who built the Labyrinth of Minos.
49. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
50. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit.
51. Relating to or near the radius.
53. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
56. French writer who is considered the father of science fiction (1828-1905).
57. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
58. Thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game.
60. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
61. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
62. English essayist (1775-1834).
63. A local computer network for communication between computers.
65. Having relatively few calories.
68. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
69. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
74. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
75. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
79. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
81. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
85. An official prohibition or edict against something.
88. A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip).
91. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
92. Do away with.
94. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
95. Being six more than fifty.
96. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
97. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
99. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
100. A yearning for something or to do something.
101. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
102. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
103. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.

DOWN

1. Of or relating to neuroglia.
2. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
3. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
4. The boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
5. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
6. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
9. Order by virtue of superior authority.
10. South African term for `boss'.
11. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
12. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
13. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
14. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
15. Of power or authority.
25. A port city in southwestern Iran.
27. Space by the side of a bed (especially the bed of a sick or dying person).
29. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
30. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
32. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
33. Lacking fresh air.
34. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
35. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
37. A small container (as one holding electronic equipment).
38. Congenital absence of the uterus.
40. Walking unsteadily.
41. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
43. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
44. Spray very finely.
45. Proboscis monkeys.
48. An island of central Hawaii.
52. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
54. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
55. A Russian river.
59. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
64. A city and port in northern Jutland.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
67. Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
68. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
70. God of fire.
72. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
76. A small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one.
77. A state of northeastern India.
78. Half the width of an em.
80. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
81. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
82. An underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea v 1.
83. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
84. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
86. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
87. Offering fun and gaiety.
89. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
90. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
93. The cry made by sheep.
98. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.

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