Crossword Puzzle Number 2844 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
4. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
9. An informal term for a father.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
17. Consisting of or having the character of loam.
18. In bed.
19. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
20. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
21. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
22. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
23. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
24. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
26. A three-tone Chadic language.
29. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
31. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
32. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
33. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
34. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
36. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
39. Not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol).
45. An associate degree in nursing.
46. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
47. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
51. Type genus of the Nepidae.
52. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
53. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
54. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
57. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
59. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
60. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
65. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
67. The imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644.
68. Of or relating to near the ear.
71. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
72. Regional and archaic.
76. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
77. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
80. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
83. Framework for holding objects.
87. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
88. Accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier.
91. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
93. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
94. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
95. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
97. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
98. A light touch or stroke.
99. A Hindu prince or king in India.
100. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
101. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.

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1. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
2. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
3. Make uniform.
4. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
5. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
6. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
7. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
8. City in Sudan.
9. The inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
10. A port city in southwestern Iran.
11. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
12. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
13. A large fleet.
14. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
25. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
27. In truth (often tends to intensify).
28. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.
30. Denuded of leaves.
35. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
37. Long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate-colored acidic pulp.
38. A substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I').
40. Exaggerate one's acting.
41. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
42. Any of various showy orchids of the genus Sobralia having leafy stems and bright-colored solitary or racemose flowers similar to those of genus Cattleya.
43. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
44. At or constituting a border or edge.
48. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
49. (informal) Of the highest quality.
50. A loss of will power.
55. The United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data.
56. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
58. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
61. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
62. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
63. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
64. Go on board.
66. Offensively discourteous.
69. Felt hat with a creased crown.
70. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
73. The longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton.
74. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
75. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
78. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
79. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
81. Half the width of an em.
82. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
84. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
85. 100 chon equal 1 won.
86. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
89. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
90. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
92. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
96. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
97. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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