Crossword Puzzle Number 2563 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
4. Being divided or separated.
9. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
16. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
17. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
18. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. Black tropical American cuckoo.
20. An artificial source of visible illumination.
22. Drawn into the lungs.
23. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
25. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
26. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
27. 10 grams.
29. Herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
36. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
38. Dwell (archaic).
43. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
44. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
46. Water frozen in the solid state.
49. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
51. Thought to derive from meteorites.
54. Of or relating to a hair.
56. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
58. A genus of Paridae.
60. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
61. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
62. A Loloish language.
64. Of or relating to the ancient Greek city of Argos or its people.
65. A public promotion of some product or service.
66. The state of being total.
68. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite.
69. A French abbot.
71. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
72. Before noon.
74. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
76. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
77. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
78. The square of a body of any size of type.
80. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
83. The cry made by sheep.
85. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
88. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
95. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
96. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
97. Gained or acquired.
100. One million periods per second.
101. Largest crested screamer.
103. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
105. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
106. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
107. Employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words.
108. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
109. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.

DOWN

1. An aromatic balsam.
2. Type genus of the Anatidae.
3. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
4. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
5. United States architect (born in China in 1917).
6. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
7. A Greek island west of Greece.
8. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
9. In bed.
10. An informal term for a father.
11. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
12. A light touch or stroke.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. A gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus.
15. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
21. Periapsis in Earth orbit.
24. The sixth month of the civil year.
28. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
31. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
32. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. Of or relating to neurons.
39. German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956).
40. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
41. An African amulet.
42. Structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure.
45. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
47. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
48. Worn away as by water or ice or wind.
50. Microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica.
52. African mahogany trees.
53. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
55. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
57. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
59. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
70. (informal) Exceptionally good.
73. A long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy.
75. A master's degree in education.
79. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
81. An informal term for a father.
82. Type genus of the Majidae.
84. Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude.
85. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
86. (Greek mythology) The rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods.
87. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
89. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
90. A cape at the southern tip of Norway.
91. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
92. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
93. A Hindu prince or king in India.
94. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
98. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
99. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
102. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
104. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.

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