Crossword Puzzle Number 2786 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Informal terms for a mother.
4. An artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner.
9. Avatar of Vishnu.
13. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. Occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion.
18. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
20. (Irish) The sea personified.
21. A congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip.
23. Leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree.
25. Goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis.
27. Very recently.
28. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
29. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
31. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
33. Type genus of the Ranidae.
35. A state in midwestern United States.
41. A city in southern California (southeast of Los Angeles).
44. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
46. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
47. Of or in or relating to the nose.
48. (geology) Used of the earliest known rocks.
50. Informal terms for a meal.
51. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
52. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
53. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
54. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
55. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
56. Grow by addition, as of capital.
59. The deck between the bridge and the forecastle.
63. Very dark black.
64. Used of persons.
68. A thin fog with condensation near the ground v 1.
69. Expect, believe, or suppose.
72. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
73. The highest level or degree attainable.
74. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
76. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
78. New Guinea echidnas.
81. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
83. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
87. A condition yielding nothing of value.
90. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
91. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
92. Like or full of suet.
94. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
95. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
96. Towards the side away from the wind.
97. United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902).
98. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
99. Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down v 1.

DOWN

1. A master's degree in library science.
2. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
3. A chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia halfway between New Guinea and Japan.
4. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
5. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
6. Waves breaking on the shore.
7. A river in southeastern France.
8. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
9. A ridge that forms a seam between two parts.
10. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
11. The mother of Jesus.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
14. A disorderly outburst or tumult.
15. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
22. (Old Testament) A son of Jacob and a forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
24. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
26. United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918).
30. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live.
36. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
37. A Russian river.
38. An extinct Semitic language of northern Syria.
39. The practice of living without clothes for reasons of health.
40. A salt or ester of arsenic acid.
42. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
43. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
45. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
49. A small two-wheeled cart for one passenger.
57. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
58. The capital of Eritrea.
60. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
61. Antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatening arrhythmias but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients.
62. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
65. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
66. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
67. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
68. The mother of Jesus.
70. Somewhat elderly.
71. White sauce with whipping cream and shrimp butter.
75. The acetylated derivative of salicylic acid.
77. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
79. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
80. The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal).
82. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
84. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
85. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
86. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
88. The seed of the cereal grass.
89. A young woman making her debut into society.
93. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.

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