Crossword Puzzle Number 2906 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. (British) A person without employment who makes money by various dubious schemes.
8. A thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices.
12. The person or thing chosen or selected.
16. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
17. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
18. Give over.
19. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
20. Having leadership guidance.
21. A person who is of equal standing with another in a group.
22. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
23. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
26. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
29. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
31. East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok.
33. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands.
36. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
38. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
42. At or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship.
43. An unwholesome atmosphere.
46. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
47. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
48. An associate degree in nursing.
49. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
51. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
52. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
55. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
57. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
59. The capital city of Vietnam.
60. People of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture.
63. The dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa.
65. A cordial disposition.
66. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
67. Lessen the intensity of.
68. A Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s.
70. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
72. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
73. The basic unit of money in Peru.
74. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
76. Numbered or proceeding by tens.
79. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
82. Herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.
83. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
86. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
88. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
89. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
92. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
95. Extremely pleasing.
96. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
97. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
99. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
100. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
101. A low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water.
102. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
103. A clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped.
104. A state in midwestern United States.

DOWN

1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. The month following August and preceding October.
5. One of the common people.
6. Blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel.
7. Genus of South African trees having pinnate leaves and rose-purple flowers followed by leathery pods.
8. Any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes.
9. A powerful light with reflector.
10. The content of cognition.
11. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
12. A disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin).
13. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
14. The bill in a restaurant.
15. German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910).
25. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
27. Before noon.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. A town in southern Turkey.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. A resident of Alabama.
35. Of or relating to or supporting Romanism.
37. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
39. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
40. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
41. An act of deliberate betrayal.
44. A mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving.
45. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
50. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
53. A medieval English villein.
54. A young woman making her debut into society.
56. Straighten up or out.
58. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
61. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
62. An awkward stupid person.
64. A Christian Bishop who translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic (311-382).
69. Final or last in your life or progress.
70. Blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel.
71. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
75. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
77. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
78. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
79. A successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball).
80. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
81. Jordan's port.
82. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
84. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
85. A French abbot.
87. Informal abbreviation of `gentleman'.
90. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
91. Beside one another in a row or rank.
93. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
94. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
98. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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