Crossword Puzzle Number 2687 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
9. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
13. A United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. A farewell remark.
18. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
19. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
20. Avatar of Vishnu.
22. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living between Lake Chaplain and the Saint Lawrence River.
25. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
27. Full of high-spirited delight.
28. An onerous or difficult concern.
29. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
32. (statistics) Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution.
36. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
38. Report or maintain.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
42. Someone who drives a taxi for a living.
46. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. A portable computer small enough to use in your lap.
51. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
52. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
55. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
56. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
57. Common house and field crickets.
60. Talk pompously.
63. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
64. Of or relating to or characteristic of Normandy.
65. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
66. Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure.
68. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
69. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
70. That is to say.
71. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
72. A town in east central Missouri.
74. A long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy.
77. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
80. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
81. Of a yellowish brown color similar to olive drab n.
85. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
90. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
91. Type genus of the Balaenidae.
94. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
95. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
96. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
98. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
99. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
100. Any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate.
101. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
102. A boy or man.

DOWN

1. A city in northern India.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
4. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
5. A rapid bustling commotion.
6. A characteristic sound.
7. Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).
8. Someone who tunes pianos.
9. At or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane.
10. Mexican plant used especially for making pulque the source of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal.
11. Using speech rather than writing.
12. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
13. The act of hitting vigorously.
14. A message that seems to convey no meaning.
15. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
21. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
23. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
24. South African shrub having flat acuminate leaves and yellow flowers.
26. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
31. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
33. Rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something.
34. A Mid-Atlantic state.
35. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. A Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea.
41. Tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar.
43. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
44. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
45. A beta-adrenergic blocking agent (trade name Corgard) that is used to treat hypertension and angina.
49. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
50. Written matter preceding the main text of a book.
53. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
54. Derived from, or resembling, tan or tannin.
58. Go on board.
59. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
61. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
62. Antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns.
67. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
73. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
75. 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.
76. Make visible.
78. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
79. Jordan's port.
82. Not easy.
83. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
84. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
86. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
87. Offering fun and gaiety.
88. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
89. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
92. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
93. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
97. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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