Crossword Puzzle Number 2885 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
4. A branch of the Tai languages.
8. The state of owing money.
12. (biology) Shed at an early stage of development.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. God of fire.
18. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
19. The 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
20. Of or relating to or transmitted by a member of the family Muridae (rats and mice).
21. Wild ginger.
23. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
24. A decree that prohibits something.
27. A Mid-Atlantic state.
31. A blemish made by dirt.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
39. A grounder that bounces high in the air.
42. Genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers.
44. A person authorized to conduct religious worship.
45. Anything that tends to arouse.
47. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
48. One thousand periods per second.
49. Spot, stain, or pollute.
51. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
53. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
57. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
59. Using speech rather than writing.
60. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect.
61. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
62. Any competition.
63. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
64. A festival featuring African-American culture.
68. An informal term for a father.
69. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
71. The content of cognition.
72. Serving as or forming a base.
75. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
77. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
81. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
86. Any system of principles or beliefs.
87. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
90. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
92. A master's degree in business.
93. A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.
94. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
95. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
96. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
97. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
98. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
99. Produced by a manufacturing process.
100. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
2. Largest known toad species.
3. An opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture.
4. A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral.
5. How long something has existed.
6. Half the width of an em.
7. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
8. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
9. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
10. Having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky.
11. Contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.
12. The act of gripping and pressing firmly.
13. Belgian architect and leader in art nouveau architecture (1861-1947).
14. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
15. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
22. A large zodiacal constellation between Libra and Sagittarius.
25. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
26. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
28. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
29. Small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage.
30. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
32. Small genus of tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having pods like those of the acacia.
34. Genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns.
35. The sixth day of the week.
36. Wild llama.
37. Portable bulletproof shelter.
40. Transfer to a peripheral device, of computer data.
41. Any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone.
43. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
46. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
50. King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959).
52. A person from whom you are descended.
54. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
55. Any of various small biting flies.
56. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
58. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
65. (superlative of `near' or `nigh') Most near.
66. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
67. Corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (Southern).
68. The act of gripping and pressing firmly.
70. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
73. A state in northwestern North America.
74. Any of several short-billed Old World rails.
76. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
78. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
82. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
83. A primeval personification of air and breath.
84. Willing to face danger.
85. Humble request for help.
88. The cry made by sheep.
89. A three-year law degree.
91. Someone who is morally reprehensible.

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