Crossword Puzzle Number 2750 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
4. English monk and scholar (672-735).
8. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
12. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
16. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
17. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
18. Found on a farm.
19. 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.
20. Type genus of the Pezizaceae.
22. Leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree.
24. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
25. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
26. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. (of pages) Worn or soiled by thumb and fingers by frequent handling or turning.
33. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
35. Unknown god.
36. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
38. An associate degree in nursing.
44. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
48. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
49. Genus of herbs of southern United States.
51. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
53. Mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake.
54. Suggestive of the supernatural.
55. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
56. A mechanical device used for dicing food.
57. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
58. A master's degree in fine arts.
60. An immunosuppressive drug (trade name Imuran) used to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ.
61. A republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971.
63. A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle.
66. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
68. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
69. A B vitamin that prevents beriberi.
71. Any of various widely distributed beetles.
73. Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics.
76. Move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees.
77. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
80. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
83. Having winglike extensions.
84. Relating to or near the ulna.
85. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
89. Type genus of the Ranidae.
90. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
94. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
96. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
98. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
99. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
100. A modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence.
101. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
102. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.

DOWN

1. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
2. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
3. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
4. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
5. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
6. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
7. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
8. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
9. The airforce of Great Britain.
10. The weight of a liter of hydrogen (at 0 Centigrade and 760 millimeters pressure).
11. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
12. Succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers.
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.
15. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
21. In an ideal manner.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. 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.
30. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
31. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
32. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
34. Give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations.
37. (Judaism) Not conforming to dietary laws.
39. Smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed.
40. Someone who leaves.
41. A workplace where ships are built or repaired.
42. Archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival.
43. Elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface.
45. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
46. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
47. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
50. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
52. Capable of being corrupted.
59. (Mexican) Corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed.
62. An island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea.
64. A member of the Taracahitian people of central Mexico.
65. American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry.
67. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
70. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
72. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
74. A quantity of no importance.
75. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
78. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
79. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control.
81. Squash bugs.
82. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
86. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
87. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
88. Set down according to a plan.
91. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
92. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
93. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
95. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
97. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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