Crossword Puzzle Number 2982 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
4. Of a pale purple color.
9. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
13. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
16. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
17. A cordial disposition.
18. Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties.
19. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
20. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
22. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
24. The residue that remains when something is burned.
25. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
26. A white solid mineral that occurs naturally as periclase.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
31. The father of your father or mother.
35. A Dardic language spoken in northern Kashmir.
37. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. Easily irritated or annoyed.
45. A small nail.
46. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
51. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
52. The month following January and preceding March.
53. Pertaining to or near the sun.
55. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
56. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
59. Tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar.
62. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
63. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
64. The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet.
65. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
66. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
67. 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.
68. (British slang) Cafe.
69. Being one more than one.
75. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
79. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
84. An accountant certified by the state.
87. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
88. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
90. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
92. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
93. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
94. A small cake leavened with yeast.
96. The cry made by sheep.
97. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
98. French sculptor noted for his renderings of the human form (1840-1917).
99. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
100. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.

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1. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
2. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
3. An unofficial association of people or groups.
4. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
5. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
6. An atom or molecule or radical or ion that forms a complex around a central atom.
7. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
8. A constellation in the northern hemisphere between Pegasus and Draco in the Milky Way.
9. Any plant of the genus Episcia.
10. Any visible abnormal structural change in a bodily part.
11. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
12. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
13. (informal) Exceptionally good.
14. A framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame.
15. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
21. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
23. 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.
27. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. Cheese melted with ale or beer served over toast.
33. (of farmland) Capable of being farmed productively.
34. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
36. Any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having 3-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring.
38. A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification.
39. Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea.
40. A former province of east central France.
42. French ruling dynasty from 1328 to 1589.
47. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
48. The imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644.
49. A bottle with a stopper.
50. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
54. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
57. Refuse to acknowledge.
58. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
60. A state in northwestern North America.
61. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
70. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
71. 16 ounces.
72. A laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers.
73. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
74. German mathematician (1804-1851).
75. The residue that remains when something is burned.
76. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
77. Republic in northern Europe.
78. Jordan's port.
80. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
81. In bed.
82. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
83. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
84. An electrically charged particle.
85. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
86. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
89. A rapid bustling commotion.
90. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
91. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
95. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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