Crossword Puzzle Number 2695 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The unit of frequency.
4. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
8. A book of the New Testament.
12. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
16. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
17. Common Indian weaverbird.
18. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
19. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
20. (informal) Exceptionally good.
22. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
24. Relating to people with good incomes.
26. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
27. Used by Maoris for thatching.
29. Made tough by habitual exposure.
30. An oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde.
32. (Russian) Small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried.
33. Have legs that curve outward at the knees.
35. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
37. Handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute.
40. A means of serving.
44. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
45. A state in the eastern United States.
46. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
47. The environment as it relates to living organisms.
49. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
51. A long-handled oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward.
53. Illuminated by means of floodlights.
56. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
59. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
60. An electrically charged particle.
61. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
62. A public promotion of some product or service.
63. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
64. Any competition.
66. Rousing or recalling to unity and renewed effort.
69. An elaborate song for solo voice.
70. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
72. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
74. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
77. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
78. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
84. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
88. God of love and erotic desire.
90. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
92. A boy or man.
93. The basic unit of money in Myanmar.
94. God of fire.
95. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
96. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
97. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
98. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
99. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
100. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

DOWN

1. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
2. A beautiful and graceful girl.
3. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
4. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
5. Large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America.
6. A clear oily brown solution of cresols in soap.
7. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
8. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
9. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
10. God of war and sky.
11. Of surpassing excellence.
12. A genus of Camelidae.
13. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
14. The general activity of selling.
15. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
21. Golden Italian liqueur flavored with herbs.
23. The intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors.
25. An ornamental net in the shape of a bag that confines a woman's hair.
28. Morning glory.
31. A small wooded hollow.
34. An electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power.
36. In a valid manner.
38. Genus of perennial rhizomatous herb of southern and southeastern United States.
39. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
41. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
42. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
43. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
48. A toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles.
50. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
52. A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink.
54. Belonging to some prior time.
55. A person forced to flee from home or country.
57. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
58. At or constituting a border or edge.
65. Proceed or issue forth, as from a source.
66. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
67. German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716).
68. Of or relating to the Iberian peninsula or its inhabitants.
69. God of war and sky.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
75. An Italian woman of rank.
76. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
79. The time during which someone's life continues.
80. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
81. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
82. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
83. (dialect) A short straight stick of wood.
85. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
86. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
87. The sixth month of the civil year.
89. (informal) Roused to anger.
91. (Babylonian) The sky god.

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