Crossword Puzzle Number 2663 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly.
5. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
9. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
13. Inquire about.
16. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
17. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
18. An onerous or difficult concern.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax.
22. Of or relating to the process of hearing.
24. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
25. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
26. A receptacle for the ash from smokers' cigars or cigarettes.
29. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
30. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
31. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
33. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
36. Something with a round shape like a flat circular plate.
40. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
46. At or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other.
47. Informal terms for a meal.
49. A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
51. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
53. Make a gurgling sound as of liquid issuing from a bottle.
54. A capacious bag or basket.
55. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
57. A lyric poet.
58. Being one more than two.
60. Liveliness and energy.
61. King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975).
66. A city in northern India.
67. Small family of usually tropical butterflies.
70. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
71. A plant lacking a permanent woody stem.
72. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
73. Made of or resembling lace.
74. Any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8.
77. How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.
79. The intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors.
83. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
87. Clean or orderly.
88. A mountain peak in the Karakoram Range in northern Kashmir.
92. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
93. 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.
94. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
96. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
97. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
98. Chief port of Yemen.
99. A town in north central Oklahoma.
100. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.

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1. A distinct feature or element in a problem.
2. Squash bugs.
3. Successive (without a break).
4. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
5. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
6. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
7. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
8. United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969).
9. A blind god.
10. A member of the Uniat Church.
11. A rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika.
12. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. God of love and erotic desire.
21. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
23. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
27. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
28. Create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material.
32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
34. A fastener for a door or lid.
35. A republic in western South America.
37. A mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,083 feet high).
38. Confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle.
39. Deploy anew.
41. Any of various types of cabbage.
42. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
43. A cgs unit of work or energy.
44. Write new lyrics for (a song).
45. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
48. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
56. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
59. Someone who cuts and delivers ice.
62. Any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers.
63. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
64. Resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible.
65. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
68. French philosopher and theologian.
69. (British) Your grandmother.
75. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
76. A genus of delicate ferns belonging to the family Osmundaceae.
78. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
80. A bluish shade of green.
81. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
82. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
84. A French abbot.
85. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
86. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
89. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
90. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
91. A partially opened flower.
95. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).

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