Crossword Puzzle Number 2717 (Large Grid)

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1. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
9. An unpleasant or disastrous destiny.
13. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
16. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
17. God of death.
18. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
19. (informal) Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman.
20. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
21. A minor match preceding the main event.
22. United States film actor (born in Hungary) noted for portraying monsters (1884-1956).
24. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
26. The cry made by sheep.
27. A genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
29. 1 species.
32. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
33. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
36. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
41. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
44. A New England state.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912).
49. Having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds.
51. Not in action or at work.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. Troubled emotionally and usually deeply.
56. Using speech rather than writing.
57. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
58. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
60. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
61. Part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored.
62. Being one more than six.
63. Being nine more than forty.
64. A European river.
68. Tag the base runner to get him out.
73. On or toward the lee.
74. Bubble shells.
78. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
80. A slender double-reed instrument.
82. Of or relating the leg from the knee to the foot.
84. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
88. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
91. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
92. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
94. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
95. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
96. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
97. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
98. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
99. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).

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1. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. The content of cognition.
4. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
5. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
6. Found along western Atlantic coast.
7. Thick like cream.
8. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
9. Fallow deer.
10. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
11. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
12. Periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles.
13. (logic or grammar) Of or relating to scope.
14. (informal) Elegant and fashionable.
15. The capital of Western Samoa.
23. A single complete turn (axial or orbital).
25. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
28. Relating to or existing on or affecting the skin.
30. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
31. Not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course.
34. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
35. Without moral standards or principles.
37. Having been introduced to something new.
39. A white mineral.
40. The state capital of South Australia.
42. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.
43. To this place (especially toward the speaker).
47. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
50. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
52. A worthless message.
55. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
59. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
65. Relating to or characteristic of a word whose reference depends on the circumstances of its use.
66. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
67. Offensively discourteous.
68. (logic or grammar) Of or relating to scope.
69. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
70. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
71. (formal) A person who announces important news.
72. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
75. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
76. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
77. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
79. A state in midwestern United States.
81. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
83. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
85. Type genus of the Amiidae.
86. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
87. A primeval personification of air and breath.
89. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
90. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
93. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.

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