Crossword Puzzle Number 2548 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
9. United States baseball player (born 1925).
13. A light touch or stroke.
16. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
17. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
18. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
19. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
20. Found along western Atlantic coast.
22. Of questionable taste or morality.
24. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
26. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
27. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
28. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
30. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
31. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
33. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
35. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
37. Repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning.
39. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
40. (chemistry) Being or containing an acid.
44. A garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle).
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
49. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
50. A complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice.
52. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
53. Chief port of Yemen.
54. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
55. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
58. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
59. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
61. Having removed clothing.
65. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
66. An instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano).
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
68. Fiddler crabs.
69. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
71. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
73. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
74. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
79. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
81. Great coolness and composure under strain.
84. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
87. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
91. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
92. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
94. (British) "use your noddle".
96. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
97. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
98. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
100. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
101. A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
102. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
103. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
104. The month following April and preceding June.

DOWN

1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
3. Meteorology of the total extent of the atmosphere.
4. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
6. A loose cloak with a hood.
7. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
8. True lizards.
9. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
10. United States playwright (1906-1963).
11. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
12. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
13. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
14. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
15. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
21. Formed like a bacillus.
23. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
25. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
29. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
32. Without the natural or usual covering.
34. Language of the people of Cebu in the Philippines.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. Belgian cosmologist who proposed the big-bang theory of the origin of the universe (1894-1966).
41. An informal term for a father.
42. Consider as ideal.
43. Suppressed or subject to censorship.
47. Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit.
48. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
51. Informal terms for a mother.
56. A native or inhabitant of Nubia.
57. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
60. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
62. A skullcap worn by nuns under a veil or by soldiers under a hood of mail or formerly by British sergeants-at-law v 1.
63. A person forced to flee from home or country.
64. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
68. An epic in Latin by Virgil.
70. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Torodal) that is given only orally.
71. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
72. Rod-shaped motile bacteria that attack plants.
73. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
75. Someone who drives a taxi for a living.
76. Losing color.
77. Wild and domestic cattle.
78. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
80. English monk and scholar (672-735).
82. A Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle.
83. A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.
85. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
86. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
88. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
89. English essayist (1775-1834).
90. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
93. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
95. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
99. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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