Crossword Puzzle Number 2874 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
5. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
9. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
13. A woman religious.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. In bed.
18. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
19. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
20. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
21. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
23. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
25. (printing) A short line at the end of the main strokes of a character.
27. (medicine) Having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
30. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
32. A slight amount or degree of difference.
36. New Zealand conifer.
39. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
43. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
45. A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.
46. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
48. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
49. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
51. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
53. Humble in spirit or manner.
55. In an uneven and irregular way.
57. A quantity of no importance.
58. Again but in a new or different way.
59. The act of eating dinner.
60. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
61. A tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production.
62. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
63. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
64. Income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time.
67. A kind of pain.
69. Of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity.
71. The sixth month of the civil year.
72. Brittle flat bread eaten at Passover.
73. A branch of the Tai languages.
75. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
76. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
81. A small cake leavened with yeast.
87. God of love and erotic desire.
90. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
92. Put (things or places) in order.
94. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
95. The crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals.
96. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
98. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
99. The chance to speak.
100. A violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family.
101. A university in Connecticut.
102. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.

DOWN

1. Italian poet who wrote an epic poem about the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (1544-1595).
2. Someone who drives racing cars at high speeds.
3. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
8. Excessive desire to eat.
9. A small fragment.
10. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
11. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
12. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
13. Nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste.
14. A state in the western United States.
15. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
22. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
24. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
26. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
31. Before noon.
33. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
34. The curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points.
35. A loud utterance.
37. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
38. Characteristic of a lack of maturity.
40. African antelopes.
41. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high).
42. Convert into ions.
44. A small native range horse.
47. Large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs.
50. The space between two lines or planes that intersect.
52. Patron saint of Wales (circa 520-600).
54. A festival featuring African-American culture.
56. The visual percept of a region.
65. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
66. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
68. A man who serves as a sailor.
70. Tropical evergreen trees or shrubs.
71. Excessive desire to eat.
74. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
77. Protective covering made of metal and used in combat.
78. Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic.
79. Obvious and dull.
80. Spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key.
82. A city in northern India.
83. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
84. A small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot.
85. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
86. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
88. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
89. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
91. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
93. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
97. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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