Crossword Puzzle Number 2550 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something.
5. Somewhat hard.
13. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. Husk of a pea.
19. Slightly open.
20. A cadenced trot executed by the horse in one spot.
21. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
22. An account describing incidents or events.
23. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
24. Having the skin scraped off.
27. Unknown god.
28. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
29. A native-born Israeli.
31. An established ceremony prescribed by a religion.
34. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
37. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
40. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
43. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as').
46. Common American weed or wildflower.
48. A unit of pressure.
50. (prefix) Within.
51. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
54. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
55. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.
56. Genus of herbs of mountains of North America and Eurasia and Africa.
58. God of wealth and love.
60. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
61. A Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy.
62. Perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries.
63. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
65. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
69. Cause to run off the tracks.
72. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
73. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
75. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
76. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
80. A native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia.
84. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
85. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
87. Administer an oil or ointment to.
88. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
90. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
92. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
93. Flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water.
96. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
97. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
98. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
99. Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody.
100. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. An informal term for a father.
2. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
3. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
4. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
5. Express in speech.
6. 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.
7. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
8. Of or relating to or characteristic of Israel or its people.
9. A powerful light with reflector.
10. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
11. A partly sheltered anchorage.
12. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
13. French soldier said to be fearless and chivalrous (1473-1524).
14. A genus of Platalea.
15. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
16. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
25. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
26. A master's degree in business.
30. (informal) Of the highest quality.
32. Instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal.
33. A bicycle with two sets of pedals and two seats.
35. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
36. Match badly.
38. One who loves and defends his or her country.
39. Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.
41. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
42. A crime syndicate in the United States.
44. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
45. Of or pertaining to Sabah or its people.
47. A member of a West African people living chiefly in southwestern Nigeria.
49. French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791).
52. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
53. Away from the mouth or oral region.
57. Walk or tramp about.
59. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
66. Of a leaf shape.
67. Sour or bitter in taste.
70. (combining form) Acting or functioning as a regent or ruler.
71. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
74. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
77. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
78. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
79. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
81. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
82. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
83. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
86. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
89. The player judged to be the most important to the sport.
90. An artificial source of visible illumination.
91. Your general store of remembered information.
94. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
95. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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