Crossword Puzzle Number 2718 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
4. Or or relating to or caused by tides.
9. In bed.
13. A light touch or stroke.
16. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
17. Of a leaf shape.
18. Not widely known.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. Right-hand page.
22. A sudden very loud noise.
23. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
24. Speaking a Slavic language.
26. Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people.
27. Lower in esteem.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. Being nine more than ninety.
31. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
32. Battle in World War I (1917).
34. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
41. Beyond what is natural.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. A tributary of the Rhine.
47. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
51. Rum cut with water.
52. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
55. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
57. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
58. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
59. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
60. An allergic reaction that becomes apparent in a sensitized person only minutes after contact.
62. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
65. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
66. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
67. Ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse.
68. Having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes.
71. A door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall.
72. So scary as to cause chills and shudders.
74. A region in central Italy.
75. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
76. A tranquilizer (trade name Navane) used to treat schizophrenia.
78. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
79. The wife of a sheik.
82. A percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer.
84. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
88. Of or relating to or shaped like a toroid.
91. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
93. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
94. A nitrogenous substance found in mucous secretions.
96. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
98. The residue that remains when something is burned.
99. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
100. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
101. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
102. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.

DOWN

1. By bad luck.
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
4. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
5. United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954).
6. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
7. Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.
8. The basic unit of money in Sierra Leone.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. Be bossy towards.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. Move away from a place into another direction.
13. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
14. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
25. A town of Denmark in north central Jutland.
28. With considerable certainty.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
35. Of or relating to an inability to urinate.
36. Type genus of the Ochotonidae.
37. South African term for `boss'.
38. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
39. Travel by boat on a boat propelled by wind or by other means.
40. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
43. Take by theft.
44. Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages.
48. Antacid (trade name Prilosec) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach.
49. An utterance made by exhaling audibly.
50. Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles.
53. A diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound.
54. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
56. Minor or subordinate.
61. Inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture.
63. Any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa.
64. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
66. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
69. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
70. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
73. A town in south central Washington.
77. The capital and largest city of Liechtenstein.
80. An opening into or through something.
81. 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.
83. A unit of power equal to 746 watts.
85. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
86. Flat tableland with steep edges.
87. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
89. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
90. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
92. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
95. A state in southeastern United States.
97. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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