Crossword Puzzle Number 2897 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. The superior of an abbey of monks.
9. Flat tableland with steep edges.
13. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. A loud harsh or strident noise.
18. In an idle manner.
19. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
20. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.
22. British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue transplants and discovered that the rejection of grafts was an immune response (1915-1987).
24. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
25. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
26. Of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
32. A linen tape used for trimming as a decoration.
34. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
37. Delicacy highly prized in Japan but highly dangerous.
38. A long brightly colored shawl.
42. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
45. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
46. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
47. A band worn around or over the head.
51. An account describing incidents or events.
52. Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924).
53. A state in northwestern North America.
54. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
55. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
56. An associate degree in nursing.
58. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
60. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
62. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
63. A quantity of no importance.
65. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
67. Very small northern fish.
69. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
72. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
73. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
75. A subdivision of a larger religious group.
76. A telegram sent abroad.
78. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
81. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
83. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
84. The eleventh month of the civil year.
90. The basic unit of money in Iran.
92. Riding without a saddle.
96. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
97. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
98. Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering.
100. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
101. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
102. A constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Octans.
104. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
105. The sign language used in the United States.
106. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
107. Immediately past.
108. Of a quality, as in.
109. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).

DOWN

1. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
2. Very light colored.
3. Type genus of the Amiidae.
4. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
5. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
6. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
7. Brass that looks like gold.
8. Being of the age 13 through 19.
9. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
10. King of Northumbria who was converted to Christianity (585-633).
11. (usually in the plural) Pants for casual wear.
12. A port in southwestern Scotland.
13. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
21. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
23. An uproarious party.
27. Coffee trees.
28. Expose to fresh air, as of old clothing.
30. The cry made by sheep.
33. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
35. Genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas.
36. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
39. Situated away from the axis of any body or part.
40. Relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean.
41. An abstract part of something.
43. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
44. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
48. Jordan's port.
49. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
50. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
57. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
59. An informal term for a father.
61. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
64. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
66. A particular environment or walk of life.
68. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
70. A city in western California on San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.
71. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
74. A state in southeastern United States.
77. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth.
79. 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.
80. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
82. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
83. A state in midwestern United States.
85. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
86. A city in northeastern Ohio.
87. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
88. Lower in esteem.
89. Behave carelessly or indifferently.
91. A city in northern India.
93. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia.
94. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
95. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
99. An informal term for a father.
103. An informal term for a father.

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