Crossword Puzzle Number 2577 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The sound made by corvine birds.
4. Horned vipers.
9. Cheese containing a blue mold.
13. A Nilotic language.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
18. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
19. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
20. Perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves.
22. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
24. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
25. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
26. Deprive of by deceit.
28. A resident of Iowa.
29. Being one more than fifty.
30. Bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America.
31. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
37. A doctor's degree in optometry.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
48. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
49. An institution that issues something (securities or publications or currency etc.).
50. The first light of day.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
54. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
55. An unforeseen obstacle.
58. A city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
60. Relating to or lying near the palate.
62. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
64. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
65. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
66. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
70. Being one more than fifty.
71. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
72. A port city in southwestern Iran.
74. A primeval personification of air and breath.
77. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
80. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
84. A state of northeastern India.
88. Type genus of the Anatidae.
92. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
94. Relating to the Urdu language.
96. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
97. Having much flesh (especially fat).
98. A Russian river.
99. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
100. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.

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1. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
2. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
3. A recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing.
4. (informal) Of the highest quality.
5. Relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body.
6. Sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat) section or component of something.
7. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
8. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
9. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
10. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. In or of the month preceding the present one.
13. United States pharmacologist (born in Germany) who was the first to show that acetylcholine is produced at the junction between a parasympathetic nerve and a muscle (1873-1961).
14. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
15. A sign of something about to happen.
21. English monk and scholar (672-735).
23. Tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw.
27. A soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery.
29. Someone who places an order to buy.
33. Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness.
35. A tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle).
36. Being nine more than ninety.
38. Breed of large wiry-coated terrier bred in Yorkshire.
39. American gurnard.
41. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
42. A state in New England.
43. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
44. Type genus of the Sulidae.
45. A rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag.
47. A small spiked wheel at the end of a spur.
52. Semi-parasitic herb with purple or white or pink flowers.
56. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
57. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
59. An associate degree in nursing.
61. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
63. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
67. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
68. The quantity that a barn will hold.
69. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
70. United States pharmacologist (born in Germany) who was the first to show that acetylcholine is produced at the junction between a parasympathetic nerve and a muscle (1873-1961).
73. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
75. Order by virtue of superior authority.
76. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
78. Before noon.
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
81. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
82. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
83. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
85. A fastener for a door or lid.
86. A fit of shivering.
87. Not widely known.
89. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
90. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
91. A partially opened flower.
92. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
93. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
95. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.

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