Crossword Puzzle Number 2816 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A French abbot.
5. A very light brown.
9. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
13. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
16. A sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force.
17. A worthless lazy fellow.
18. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
19. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
20. Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916).
21. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
23. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
25. A colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid used as an inhalation anesthetic.
27. An association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members.
29. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
30. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
32. A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair.
33. Having unsuitable feminine qualities.
34. Help as a benefactor.
37. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
38. Remote and separate physically or socially.
39. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
42. Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis.
46. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
47. German hero.
50. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
51. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
52. Indigo bush.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
55. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
56. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
60. A large number or amount.
63. A white powder used as a pigment for its high covering power and durability.
65. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
66. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
67. Catch sight of.
68. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
71. Informal terms for a mother.
73. Housing structures collectively.
75. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
76. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
79. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
81. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
82. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
85. A benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin.
89. A small cake leavened with yeast.
92. A branch of the Tai languages.
93. Any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts.
96. A master's degree in business.
97. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
98. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
100. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
101. Tag the base runner to get him out.
102. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
103. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
104. The sixth month of the civil year.
105. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
106. A public promotion of some product or service.

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1. The highest level or degree attainable.
2. A small vessel for travel on water.
3. 15th President of the United States (1791-1868).
4. Something transitory.
5. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
6. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
7. An ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor.
8. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
9. Ski downhill.
10. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
13. European shad.
14. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
15. Stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug.
22. How long something has existed.
24. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
26. Someone who travels by raft.
28. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
31. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
35. Any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers.
36. Wearing or provided with clothing.
40. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
41. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
43. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
44. Of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures.
45. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
48. A woman of refinement.
49. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
53. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
57. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
58. (European mythology) A supernatural smith and king of the elves.
59. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
61. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
62. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
64. The month following July and preceding September.
69. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
70. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
72. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
74. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
77. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
78. A seaport in northwestern Italy.
80. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
82. A genus of Lamnidae.
83. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
84. Jordan's port.
86. Toward the mouth or oral region.
87. Little known Kamarupan languages.
88. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
90. An unofficial association of people or groups.
91. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
94. An enclosed space.
95. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
99. A state in the eastern United States.

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