Crossword Puzzle Number 2817 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
4. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
9. A member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries.
13. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
16. (informal) Of the highest quality.
17. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
18. (legal terminology) The Latin word for wife.
19. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
20. A flexible container with a single opening.
21. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
22. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
23. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
28. Italian Benedictine monk who was archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109.
29. The cry made by sheep.
31. Tire excessively.
38. Sudden sharp painful emotion.
39. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
42. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
45. (Welsh) A warrior god.
47. (music) A notation written at the beginning or end of a passage that is to be repeated.
48. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
53. The specified day of the month.
54. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
55. A member of the Taracahitian people of central Mexico.
57. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
59. The bill in a restaurant.
60. A genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae.
62. The capital and largest city of Chad.
65. An aromatic balsam.
66. A city of east central Mexico (west of Veracruz).
69. A formal expression of praise.
70. Squash bugs.
72. Related on the mother's side.
74. A slight amount or degree of difference.
76. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
81. A fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt by Scottish Highlanders.
85. A Hindu prince or king in India.
87. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
88. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
89. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
92. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
94. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
95. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
96. In bed.
97. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
98. Being two more than fifty.
99. Something causes misery or death.
100. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
101. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
102. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.

DOWN

1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
4. (of a bodily tube or passageway) Open.
5. Inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion.
6. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
7. Having a usually specified type of handle.
8. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
9. Wood of a sumac.
10. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
11. Late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers.
12. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
13. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
14. Lacking excess flesh.
15. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
25. Someone who operates a barge.
27. (often used in combination) Having hair as specified.
30. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
32. Leisure time away from work.
33. Half the width of an em.
34. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
35. Someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
36. A flowering shrub.
37. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
40. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
41. The capital of Tajikistan.
44. Before noon.
46. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
49. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
50. (prefix) Outside or outer.
51. Metal shackles.
52. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
56. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
58. Any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis.
61. Purify by means of a ritual.
63. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
64. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
67. Strike suddenly and with force.
68. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. A port city in southwestern Iran.
74. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
75. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
77. A genus of Platalea.
78. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
79. Strong and sharp.
80. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
82. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
83. A sign of something about to happen.
84. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
86. A friendly nation.
90. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
91. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
93. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.

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