Crossword Puzzle Number 2685 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (Babylonian) The sky god.
4. An acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands.
9. An informal term for a father.
13. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
16. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
17. At full speed.
18. Rounded like an egg.
19. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
20. A form of address for a married woman.
21. Following surreptitiously.
23. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
25. Of a moderate orange-yellow color.
27. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
29. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
30. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.
33. Tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americas.
36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
41. A castrated tomcat.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. Sour or bitter in taste.
49. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
51. Lacking companions or companionship.
53. A Russian river.
55. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
56. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
58. A city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound south of Seattle.
61. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
62. A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk.
64. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
65. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
67. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
70. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
71. The capital and largest city of Greece.
73. Russian dramatist whose plays are concerned with the difficulty of communication between people (1860-1904).
77. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
80. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
84. God of death.
87. Make numb or insensitive.
89. Found pleasant or attractive.
90. Not only so, but.
93. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
94. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
96. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
98. A decree that prohibits something.
99. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
100. Lower in esteem.
101. A Loloish language.
102. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
2. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
3. (used of certain religious orders) Barefoot or wearing only sandals.
4. One related on the mother's side.
5. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
6. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
7. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
8. Hand shears for cutting sheet metal.
9. A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times.
10. The eleventh month of the civil year.
11. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. Trace the shape of.
14. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
15. A quantity of no importance.
22. A state in New England.
24. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
26. Someone who leaves one country to settle in another.
28. A localized swelling filled with blood.
31. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
32. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
34. A glancing rebound.
35. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
37. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
38. Water buffalo of the Philippines.
39. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
42. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
43. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
44. Half the width of an em.
47. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.
48. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
50. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
52. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
54. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
57. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
59. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
60. An endorsement.
63. A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols.
66. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
68. An oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas.
69. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
72. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
74. Go on board.
75. Unknown god.
76. (law) Lacking any legal or binding force.
78. (medicine) A grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus.
79. Administer an oil or ointment to.
81. Jordan's port.
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
85. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
86. Type genus of the Ranidae.
88. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
91. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
92. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
95. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
97. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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