Crossword Puzzle Number 2883 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. South African term for `boss'.
8. Being of delicate or slender build.
12. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. Largest known toad species.
18. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
19. A genus of Mustelidae.
20. The residue that remains when something is burned.
21. A hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere).
23. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
24. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
26. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
28. Resembling milk in color or cloudiness.
29. (informal) Of the highest quality.
31. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
33. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
36. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
39. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
40. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
43. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
46. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
48. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
49. A public act of violence by an unruly mob.
50. Take the staples off.
52. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
53. Napoleon defeated the Russians in a pitched battle at Borodino in 1812, but irreparably weakened his army.
54. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
56. The act of using.
57. United States lyricist who collaborated on musicals with Frederick Loewe (1918-1986).
59. The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
61. A deep prolonged loud noise.
63. Lose validity.
64. A person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication.
65. The square of a body of any size of type.
66. King of the Huns.
68. Make amends for.
69. Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover Tasmania and New Zealand (1603-1659).
73. Entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire.
74. Outstanding Italian operatic tenor (1873-1921).
78. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
80. A strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp.
83. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
88. Of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado n 1.
90. A member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste.
92. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
93. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
94. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
96. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
97. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
98. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
99. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
100. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
101. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).

DOWN

1. Not only so, but.
2. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
5. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
6. 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.
7. A governor of a province in ancient Persia.
8. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
9. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
10. That is to say.
11. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
12. One of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object.
13. Little known Kamarupan languages.
14. Using speech rather than writing.
15. An awkward stupid person.
22. Remove from political office.
25. A native or inhabitant of Afghanistan.
27. As the agent of or on someone's part.
30. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. Woolly aphids.
35. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
37. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
38. Covering designed to be worn on a person's body.
40. Someone who tells a story.
41. Granular protein in outermost layer of endosperm of many seeds or cereal grains.
42. Understood perfectly.
44. Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception.
45. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
47. (Greek mythology) A river in Hades.
51. The process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption).
55. Of or relating to or characteristic of Great Britain or its people or culture.
58. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
60. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
62. Relating to modern Greece or its inhabitants or its language n.
67. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
70. An educational institution.
71. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
72. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
75. A river in eastern France.
76. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
77. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
79. Report or maintain.
81. A small island.
82. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
84. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
85. A city in northern India.
86. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
87. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
89. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
91. The habitation of wild animals.
95. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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