Crossword Puzzle Number 2880 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
5. Speaking a Slavic language.
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
13. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
16. South African prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931).
17. An informal term for a father.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. (informal) Roused to anger.
20. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
21. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
23. Method or manner of conduct in relation to others.
25. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
26. A mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,709 feet high).
28. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
29. The warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb.
31. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
32. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
33. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
35. A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair.
36. A conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers.
40. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
43. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
44. A kiln for drying hops.
49. Make an etching of.
50. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
51. A rapid bustling commotion.
52. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
53. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
54. (computer science) Rules determining the format and transmission of data.
57. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune.
60. A mute for a violin.
61. A rare abnormality marked by premature aging (gray hair and wrinkled skin and stooped posture) in a child.
62. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
63. A long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods).
66. Affected manners intended to impress others.
67. An associate degree in nursing.
68. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
69. A state in the eastern United States.
71. Flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States.
72. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
73. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
75. (Judaism) A chant of praise (Psalms 113 through 118) used at Passover and Shabuoth and Sukkoth and Hanukkah and Rosh Hodesh.
78. A genus of Platalea.
81. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
85. Armor plate that protects the hip and thigh.
89. A boy or man.
90. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
91. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
93. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
95. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
96. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
97. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
98. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
99. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
100. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.

DOWN

1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
2. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
3. A genus of Sterninae.
4. Suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight.
5. (of a female animal) Having the ovaries removed.
6. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
7. Remote and separate physically or socially.
8. Having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange.
9. Before noon.
10. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
11. Regional and archaic.
12. The cry made by sheep.
13. Type genus of the Amiidae.
14. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
15. At or constituting a border or edge.
22. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
24. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high).
27. King of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410).
30. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
34. A room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily.
37. Any of several breeds of terrier developed to catch rats.
38. Minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves.
39. A major school of Buddhism teaching social concern and universal salvation.
41. The pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle.
42. Become adolescent.
45. An opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain v 1.
46. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
47. Brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes.
48. In an adroit manner.
55. Concluding state of pregnancy.
56. A doctor's degree in optometry.
58. Be in accord.
59. United States psychologist noted for his work in child development (1880-1961).
64. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
65. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
70. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
74. The amount a salary is increased.
76. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
77. An island of central Hawaii.
79. (Roman mythology) Queen of the Olympian gods who protected marriage.
80. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
82. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
83. Type genus of the Majidae.
84. The sixth month of the civil year.
86. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
87. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
88. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
92. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
94. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.

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