Crossword Puzzle Number 2923 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Informal terms for a mother.
4. Locate and correct errors in a computer program code.
9. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
13. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
16. Fiddler crabs.
17. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
18. A flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces.
19. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
20. The habitation of wild animals.
21. Of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture.
22. Belonging to some prior time.
23. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
24. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
26. Ctenophore having short tentacles.
28. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
29. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
30. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
31. A slender double-reed instrument.
32. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
34. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
36. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
37. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
39. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. A deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks.
46. become turned or set on end.
51. United States violinist (born in Austria) (1875-1962).
52. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
54. The range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art".
55. Black tropical American cuckoo.
56. Careful and sensible.
58. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
59. Chop cut from a lamb.
61. Of or relating to Namibia or its people.
63. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
64. A highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep).
67. Minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root.
68. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
70. Arousing or provoking laughter.
72. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
75. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
76. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
80. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
86. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
87. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
89. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
90. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
91. Located below or beneath something else.
93. Using speech rather than writing.
94. The force of workers available.
95. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
96. The acetylated derivative of salicylic acid.
97. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
98. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

DOWN

1. Ritual hand movement in Hindu religious dancing.
2. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
3. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. Informal terms for a human head.
7. Innumerable but many.
8. Of or relating to Karl Gauss or his mathematical theories of magnetics or electricity or astronomy or probability.
9. Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain.
10. Capital of Namibia in the center of the country.
11. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
12. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
13. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
14. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
15. Stir up or tend.
25. The capital of Nationalist China.
27. Of or relating to the region of Mongolia or its people or their languages or cultures.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
38. A localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground.
40. Antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA.
42. An inhabitant of ancient Thebes.
43. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
45. The smaller of the two satellites of Mars.
47. Argentine soldier who became president of Argentina (1895-1974).
48. Start abruptly.
49. A strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp.
50. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
53. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
57. A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money.
60. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
62. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
65. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
66. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
69. A sweet innocent baby.
70. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
71. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
72. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
73. A particular environment or walk of life.
74. Adult female chicken.
75. Being of the age 13 through 19.
77. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
78. German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831).
79. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
81. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
82. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
83. A historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain.
84. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
85. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
88. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
92. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.

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