Crossword Puzzle Number 2852 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
9. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. Take in solid food.
17. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
18. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
19. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
20. How long something has existed.
21. A percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a soft-headed drumstick.
22. An informal term for a father.
24. Owing or owed feudal allegiance and service.
26. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
28. Willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest.
30. Any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots.
32. An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome.
33. Play boisterously.
35. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
36. Administer an oil or ointment to.
37. A French abbot.
41. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
45. A heavy precious metallic element.
49. The capital of Nationalist China.
50. Arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair.
51. The act of using.
52. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
53. In an advanced stage of pregnancy.
54. A garment (coat or sweater) that has raglan sleeves.
56. An abundance of material possessions and resources.
60. Run away secretly with one's beloved.
62. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
63. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
64. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
65. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
66. Having lost your job.
67. An arc-shaped whitish deposit sometimes seen in the cornea.
70. 1/10 gram.
71. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
73. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
81. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
82. Mostly black African weaverbird.
83. Bordered by a line of things.
84. Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color.
88. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
89. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
90. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
92. Used of a single unit or thing.
93. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
94. A sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived.
95. A slender double-reed instrument.
96. A sign of assent or salutation or command.

DOWN

1. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
2. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
3. A tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top.
4. A republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea.
5. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
6. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
7. The space between two lines or planes that intersect.
8. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
10. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
11. A port city in southwestern Iran.
12. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
13. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
14. An expression of greeting.
15. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
23. Having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading.
25. A fast gait of a horse.
27. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
29. An oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. The smallest of the Great Lakes.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay).
40. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
42. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Acular and Toradol) that is administered only intramuscularly.
43. Speak in a nasal voice.
44. Used of mouth or eyes.
46. Temporary living quarters.
47. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
48. Not widely known.
55. A shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep.
57. A single-reed instrument with a straight tube.
58. Having services engaged for a fee.
59. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
61. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
68. One who is employed to saw wood.
69. Similar to the color of jade.
72. (medicine) Having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course.
74. A sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay.
75. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
76. Australian clover fern.
77. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
78. A negatively charged atom.
79. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
80. Having a specified kind of border or edge.
85. A tube in which a body fluid circulates.
86. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
87. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
91. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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