Crossword Puzzle Number 2610 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
4. The brightly colored garments of a jockey.
9. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
13. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
18. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
19. A human limb.
20. (Irish) The sea personified.
21. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
22. Full of zest or vigor.
23. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
24. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
26. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
28. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
30. (Hinduism) An ascetic holy man.
32. Not in operation or operational.
35. Worthless people.
39. (medicine) Having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course.
46. The fifth of the seven canonical hours.
47. Sudden sharp painful emotion.
49. A large zodiacal constellation on the equator.
50. Anchovy pear tree.
51. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
53. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
54. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
55. Arranged in or consisting of laminae.
57. A republic in central Europe.
58. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
60. Type genus of the Laniidae.
61. Jordan's port.
63. Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts.
66. In or of a state of physical or nervous tension.
67. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
68. Father of the storm gods Marut.
70. Informal terms for a meal.
72. Give over.
73. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
76. A master's degree in library science.
78. Measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation.
79. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
81. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
84. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
88. The back side of the neck.
91. Radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked.
93. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
94. Used by northerners of Confederate soldiers.
96. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
98. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
99. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
100. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
101. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
102. A rapid bustling commotion.

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1. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
2. English monk and scholar (672-735).
3. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
4. Leafless East Indian vine.
5. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
6. A rye bread made with molasses or brown sugar.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. Informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions.
9. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
10. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
11. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
12. A negative.
13. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
14. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
15. A city in northern India.
25. Any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones.
27. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
29. A radioactive transuranic element.
31. Before noon.
33. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
34. A bitter tasting amino acid found in proteins and necessary for nutrition.
36. Medicine consisting of a tablet (trade name Carafate) used to treat peptic ulcers.
37. Having removed clothing.
38. Reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain.
40. An adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
41. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
42. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
43. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
44. Any of various water spirits.
45. Being five more than fifty.
48. Artificially high.
52. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
56. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
59. Formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy.
62. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
64. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
65. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
69. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
71. A shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot.
74. All the animal life in a particular region.
75. Elk or moose.
77. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
80. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
82. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
83. A Hindu prince or king in India.
85. A Loloish language.
86. Representation of the cross on which Jesus died.
87. (prefix) Within.
89. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
90. A relativistic quantum theory of the electromagnetic interactions of photons and electrons and muons.
92. Used of a single unit or thing.
95. 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.
97. (combining form) Former.

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