Crossword Puzzle Number 2879 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.
4. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
9. A quantity of no importance.
13. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
16. How long something has existed.
17. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
18. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
19. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
20. A three-year law degree.
21. Any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females.
23. Of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization.
25. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
27. Of animals.
29. European freshwater fish resembling the roach.
30. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
32. Someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities.
33. A tub in which clothes or linens can be washed.
36. A Loloish language.
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
41. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
44. Type genus of the Anatidae.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. The act of scanning.
51. Steal goods.
53. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
54. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
55. Cause to go crazy.
56. A partially opened flower.
59. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
61. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
62. Inflammation of the ear.
64. The boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
65. Cactus having yellow flowers and purple fruits.
67. Cry loudly, as of animals.
68. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
69. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
70. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
71. Any visible abnormal structural change in a bodily part.
73. A group of language of the Hokan family in Arizona and California and Mexico.
77. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
78. The content of cognition.
79. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
85. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
89. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
90. Any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs.
93. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
94. The capital of Morocco.
96. God of fire.
98. Black tropical American cuckoo.
99. A doctor's degree in theology.
100. Righteousness by virtue of being pious.
101. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
102. A boy or man.

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1. With no effort to conceal.
2. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
3. A midwestern state on the Great Plains.
4. Resembling a berry.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. A strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines).
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
9. (Yiddish) Someone who is a boring pest.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. Deliberately impassive in manner.
12. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
13. The thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest.
14. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
15. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
22. (Roman Catholic Church) The supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
24. Smeared with oil or grease to reduce friction.
26. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
28. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
31. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
34. Provide with military equipment.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
38. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap.
39. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
42. The practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage.
43. A woman of refinement.
45. (Welsh) Lord of Annwfn (the other world.
48. A large number or amount.
49. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
50. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
52. Extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit.
57. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
58. A cylindrical tower used for storing silage.
60. An enzyme that occurs in gastric juice.
63. A sudden spasm.
66. A narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative.
72. A state in southeastern United States.
74. The state of existing and being localized in space.
75. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
76. (South African) An ear of corn.
80. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
81. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
82. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
83. A French abbot.
84. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
86. Rounded like an egg.
87. A Russian river.
88. A town in north central Oklahoma.
91. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
92. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
95. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
97. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
98. An associate degree in nursing.

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