Crossword Puzzle Number 2957 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
4. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
9. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
13. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
16. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
17. A white powder with a pleasant taste and odor.
18. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
19. Used of a single unit or thing.
20. The German state.
22. Act of writing in code or cipher.
24. Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
26. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
27. A group of mostly extinct primitive bony fishes characterized by armor-like bony scales.
29. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
30. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
32. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
33. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
34. Grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns.
37. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
39. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
44. A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range.
46. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
48. The elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli.
50. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
51. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
55. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
58. In a sincere and heartfelt manner.
61. Fiddler crabs.
62. Person who does no work.
63. A French abbot.
64. State in northeastern India.
66. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
71. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
75. Gull family.
78. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
80. Goddess of love and fecundity.
83. The sound like water splashing.
85. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
89. An associate degree in applied science.
90. Refrain from voting.
93. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
95. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
96. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
97. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
99. A boy or man.
100. The basic unit of money in Romania.
101. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
102. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
103. A master's degree in business.

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1. A small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Lupus and Ara in the Milky Way.
2. Utter obscenities or profanities.
3. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
4. The residue that remains when something is burned.
5. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
6. Greek lyric poet of Lesbos.
7. A ray of moonlight.
8. An oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde.
9. (with `in') Guardianship over.
10. At or constituting a border or edge.
11. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
12. A doctor's degree in education.
13. The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II.
14. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
15. Of or relating to the feet.
21. Genus of much-branched treelike or shrubby cacti with pronounced ribs and rounded needlelike spines and nocturnal flowers usually white.
23. Being one more than two.
25. A genus of echinoderms of the family Antedonidae.
28. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
31. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
35. The lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg.
36. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
38. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
40. Sour or bitter in taste.
41. A group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting).
42. Sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae.
43. Used of persons.
45. Lighted by sunlight.
47. Jordan's port.
49. The state that precedes vomiting.
52. A public promotion of some product or service.
56. In an unnatural eery manner.
57. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
59. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
60. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
65. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
67. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
69. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
72. (of farmland) Capable of being farmed productively.
73. A shop selling delicatessen (as salads or cooked meats).
74. A bachelor's degree in religion.
76. A genus of Platalea.
77. With rapid movements.
79. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
81. A feeling of intense anger.
82. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
84. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
86. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
87. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
88. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
91. Term of address for a man.
92. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
94. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
98. Before noon.

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