Crossword Puzzle Number 2535 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
13. Any of various units of capacity.
16. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
17. An extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America).
18. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
19. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
20. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
21. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
22. Relating to the condition of immunity.
24. A short synopsis.
26. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
27. Compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming.
29. An airfoil that controls lateral motion.
32. A state in midwestern United States.
33. Occurring widely (as to many people).
34. Of or relating an apse.
37. Pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts.
40. A large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm.
41. Old World herbs and subshrubs.
44. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
47. (Babylonian) The sky god.
48. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
49. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
51. Something that remunerates.
54. (Greek mythology) The Muse of lyric and love poetry.
55. United States circus clown (1898-1979).
56. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
57. Supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines.
58. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
60. A written order directing a bank to pay money.
62. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
63. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
68. A quantity of no importance.
70. A disorder of the glands of the body.
72. Tear or be torn violently.
73. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.
75. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
76. A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way.
79. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
82. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
86. Filled with a great quantity.
87. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
89. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
90. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
91. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
93. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
95. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
96. A doctor's degree in education.
97. A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
98. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
99. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.

DOWN

1. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
4. A mild sedative-hypnotic drug (trade name Placidyl).
5. Type and sole genus of the family Albulidae.
6. The cry made by sheep.
7. Located inward.
8. An exhibition of cowboy skills.
9. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
10. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. Of or relating to a wedding.
12. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
13. A landlocked principality in the Himalayas northeast of India.
14. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
15. A city on the River Aire in West Yorkshire in northern England.
23. United States historian who wrote a nine volume history of the people of the United States (1852-1932).
25. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
28. A device that holds the dies that cut external threads on metal cylinders.
30. English essayist (1775-1834).
31. Provide commentary for a film, for example.
35. A long slender cigar.
36. A person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour.
38. Purchasing insurance policies for cash from terminally ill policy holders.
39. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
42. Forcibly broken through or opened up.
43. Fastening electrical equipment to earth.
45. Heighten or intensify.
46. A conventional name for a fox used in tales following usage in the old epic "Reynard the Fox".
50. Pass by, as of time.
52. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
53. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
61. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
64. A unit of length equal to 3 feet.
65. (psychology) An urge to accept or approach a situation or an object.
66. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
67. Mediterranean liliaceous plants.
68. A landlocked principality in the Himalayas northeast of India.
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
71. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
72. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
74. Obvious and dull.
77. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
78. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
80. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
81. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
82. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
83. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
84. At any time.
85. Declare untrue.
88. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
92. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
94. An associate degree in nursing.

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