Crossword Puzzle Number 2640 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
4. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
9. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
13. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
16. Water frozen in the solid state.
17. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
18. Type genus of the Amiidae.
19. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
20. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
22. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
24. Someone whose business is advertising.
26. The sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) v 1.
28. A salt or ester of maleic acid.
30. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
31. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
33. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
35. The process of gradually becoming inferior.
36. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
39. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
41. Wool of the alpaca.
46. A Mid-Atlantic state.
47. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
48. The 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
52. Of or relating to or located near a hilum.
53. Not elegant or graceful in expression.
55. A fit of shivering.
56. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
58. A person who commits larceny.
59. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
60. A natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth.
62. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
63. Bound or secured closely.
64. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
65. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
66. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise.
67. Chief god of the Rig-Veda.
69. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
73. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
74. A public promotion of some product or service.
77. Show a response or a reaction to something.
80. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
82. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
83. A populous province in northeastern China.
84. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
87. Excessively fat.
91. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
92. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
95. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
97. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
98. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
99. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
100. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
101. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
102. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
103. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
104. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
105. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).

DOWN

1. United States chemist (1839-1903).
2. The skin that covers the top of the head.
3. Read anew.
4. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
5. An enclosed space.
6. The Magadhan language spoken by the Assamese people.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
9. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
10. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
11. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
12. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
13. A large fleet.
14. A deep prolonged loud noise.
15. English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718).
21. Denuded of leaves.
23. A small spineless globe-shaped cactus.
25. Caused to hear poorly or not at all.
27. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
29. Either extremity of something that has length.
32. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
34. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
37. Minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans.
38. Aromatic perennial of southeastern Russia.
40. Get or find back.
42. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high).
43. A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles.
44. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
45. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
49. (music) Brought to correct pitch.
50. A waterway that feeds water to a mill or water wheel or turbine.
51. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
54. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
57. Blood-sucking African fly.
61. A town in north central Oklahoma.
68. A public performer (a dancer or singer).
69. An enclosed space.
70. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
71. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
72. Covered patchily.
73. A large fleet.
75. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
76. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
78. Suggestive of the supernatural.
79. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
81. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
85. Temporary living quarters.
86. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
87. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
88. A genus of Mustelidae.
89. A large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel.
90. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
93. A tight-fitting headdress.
94. The residue that remains when something is burned.
96. (informal) Roused to anger.

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