Crossword Puzzle Number 2523 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman.
9. Little known Kamarupan languages.
13. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
16. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
17. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
18. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
19. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
20. A blind god.
21. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
22. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
24. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
26. Remove from memory or existence.
29. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
31. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.
33. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
36. Adopted in order to deceive.
40. A state in northwestern North America.
41. A radioactive transuranic element.
44. A cartoon character created by Walt Disney.
45. A dry cold north wind in SE France.
48. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
49. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
50. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
52. A rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy.
55. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
56. The sound of laughing.
58. 10 grams.
59. A bachelor's degree in religion.
60. Possessing or displaying courage.
62. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
63. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
65. A person afflicted with leprosy.
66. Author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553).
70. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
72. A narrow way or road.
73. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
75. (in India and Burma) Robbery by a gang of armed dacoits.
77. Not final or absolute.
80. Muslim name for God.
82. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
83. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
85. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
87. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
91. Punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the person (even unto death).
94. An Anatolian language.
96. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
97. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
98. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
100. Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916).
101. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
102. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
103. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
104. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
105. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.

DOWN

1. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
2. An excavation that is (usually) filled with water.
3. First in order of birth.
4. Hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles.
5. Old World woody vines.
6. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
7. (baseball) A hit that flies straight out from the batter.
8. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
9. By bad luck.
10. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
11. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
12. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
13. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
14. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
15. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
23. An angry disturbance.
25. (Middle East) An ornamental metal cup-shaped holder for a hot coffee cup.
27. A port city in southwestern Iran.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
32. The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands.
34. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Dolobid) used to treat arthritis and other inflammatory conditions.
35. The father of your father or mother.
37. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
38. An inhaled bronchodilator (trade name Atrovent).
39. A town in western California south of San Francisco on a peninsula at the southern end of Monterey Bay.
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
43. One who works hard at boring tasks.
46. Short and fat.
47. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
51. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
53. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
54. Any of various units of capacity.
57. Of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks.
61. Load anew with ammunition, "She reloaded the gun carefully".
64. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
67. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
68. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
69. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
71. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
74. A city in northwestern Syria.
76. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
78. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
79. A number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance).
81. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
82. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
84. Little known Kamarupan languages.
85. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
86. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
88. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
89. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
90. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
92. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
93. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
95. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
99. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
100. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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