Crossword Puzzle Number 2572 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Noisy talk.
4. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
9. An imperfection in a device or machine.
13. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
18. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
19. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
20. The compass point that is one point north of due west.
21. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high).
22. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
23. A small lump or protuberance.
24. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
26. Make visible.
27. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle.
29. A showy outward display.
31. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
33. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
35. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
37. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
40. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
46. The square of a body of any size of type.
47. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
48. Hairdressing consisting of a perfumed oil or ointment.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
54. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
55. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
56. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
58. Being one more than two.
59. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
61. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
63. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
65. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
69. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
70. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
72. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
73. On or toward the lee.
74. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
76. Carry out or participate in an activity.
78. Extremely pleasing.
80. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
82. A genus of Indriidae.
86. Greek mythology.
90. (prosody) The accent in a metrical foot of verse.
93. A port city in southwestern Iran.
95. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
96. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
97. Having help.
99. A Russian river.
100. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
101. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
102. A river in eastern France.
103. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
104. Used of a single unit or thing.

DOWN

1. Make a raucous noise.
2. A French abbot.
3. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
4. An ancient city is southern Greece.
5. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
6. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
7. Of a moderate orange-yellow color.
8. Do without.
9. Hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas.
10. French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827).
11. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
12. (Brit) An area of open or forested country.
13. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
14. The twelfth month of the civil year.
15. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
25. A member of the Taracahitian people of central Mexico.
28. Of or belonging to an aecium.
30. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
32. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
34. The conversion of waste land into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation.
36. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
38. Get or find back.
39. Box and water turtles.
41. A contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days.
42. An order in the subclass Telosporidia.
43. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
44. A member of a monotheistic sect of Zoroastrian origin.
45. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
49. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
50. King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975).
53. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
57. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
60. From 40 million to 58 million years ago.
62. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
64. Jordan's port.
66. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
67. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
68. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
71. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
75. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
77. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
79. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
81. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
83. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
84. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
85. The content of cognition.
87. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
88. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
89. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
91. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
92. The capital and largest city of Japan.
94. Black tropical American cuckoo.
98. Half the width of an em.

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