Crossword Puzzle Number 2551 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A federally chartered savings bank.
4. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
8. A strong cord v 1.
12. The heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails.
16. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
17. An artificial source of visible illumination.
18. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
19. Using speech rather than writing.
20. The univalent radical CH3- derived from methane.
22. Exultantly proud and joyful.
24. A cap with a flat circular top and a visor.
25. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
26. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
28. A B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction.
30. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
34. Affect with wonder.
35. British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the Empress of India (1804-1881).
39. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
41. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
42. Covered by insurance.
44. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
48. A record in which commercial accounts are recorded.
49. (Mexican) Ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans.
50. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
51. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
52. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
53. Elaborately or excessively ornamented.
56. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
58. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
60. The application of tiles to cover a surface.
63. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
64. A public promotion of some product or service.
65. A member of the working class (not necessarily employed).
66. A river in southeastern France.
67. Half the width of an em.
69. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
71. Type genus of the Anatidae.
72. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
74. Very dark black.
77. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
79. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
80. American novelist (1909-1955).
82. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
86. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
89. The office of bishop.
92. A branch of the Tai languages.
93. Any fern of the genus Woodsia.
95. An automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger.
97. A master's degree in business.
98. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
99. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
101. Capital and largest city of Togo.
102. Tag the base runner to get him out.
103. Noisy talk.
104. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
105. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
106. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
2. (computer science) The movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk v 1.
3. A sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information.
4. One of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread.
5. The upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities.
6. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
7. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
9. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
10. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
11. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
12. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
13. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
14. Marine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell.
15. United States abstract expressionist painter (1910-1962).
21. (used only in combination) Having a heart as specified.
23. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
27. A white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2).
29. A boy or man.
31. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
32. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
33. A Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya.
36. Consider as ideal.
37. Someone who communicates by signals.
38. Lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion.
40. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
43. Large spreading Old World tree having large leaves and globose clusters of greenish-yellow flowers and long seed pods that clatter in the wind.
45. A large strong and aggressive woman.
46. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
47. French classical painter (1780-1867).
54. The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon.
55. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
57. 1/10 gram.
59. A long-playing phonograph record.
61. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
62. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
68. Russian writer who introduced realism to Russian literature (1809-1852).
70. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
73. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
75. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
76. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Nepal or its people or language or culture.
77. Put a new facing on, as of a garment.
78. A state in northwestern North America.
81. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.
82. An uproarious party.
83. A genus of Lamnidae.
84. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
85. Jordan's port.
87. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
88. Any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage).
90. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
91. A member of the North American Indian people of Arizona and adjacent Mexico and California.
94. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
95. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
96. The force of workers available.
100. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.

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