Crossword Puzzle Number 2987 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A human female who does housework.
5. A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing.
13. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
17. A Hindu theistic philosophy.
18. A benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached.
19. Type genus of the Sulidae.
20. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
21. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
22. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
23. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
24. Beautiful daughter of Minos and Pasiphae.
26. An open-air market in an Arabian city.
28. A minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services.
29. A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago.
31. The quantity contained in a keg.
34. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
35. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
36. Relating to or near the radius.
39. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
41. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
45. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
47. An informal term for a father.
48. A province in north-central China.
49. A partially opened flower.
50. Enthusiastic approval.
52. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
56. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
57. A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland.
58. Developed or executed with care and in minute detail.
60. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
62. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
63. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and norethynodrel.
65. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
66. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
69. Squash bugs.
70. One-thousandth of an equivalent.
73. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
75. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
76. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
79. French novelist.
81. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
83. The basic unit of money in Macao.
85. Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur.
89. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
90. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
91. A state in southeastern United States.
93. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
94. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
98. The force of workers available.
99. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
100. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
101. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
102. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.

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1. (classical architecture) A molding for a cornice.
2. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
3. God of fire.
4. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
5. A huge destructive wave (especially one caused by an earthquake).
6. Having services engaged for a fee.
7. Used of a single unit or thing.
8. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
9. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
10. A Penutian language spoken by the Maidu people.
11. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
12. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
13. Any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers.
14. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
15. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
16. Type genus of the Ranidae.
25. The last (12th) month of the year.
27. An accountant certified by the state.
30. Be earlier in time.
32. Disappear gradually.
33. A seaport in northwestern Italy.
37. A farmer who keeps bees for their honey.
38. Oceanic sharks.
40. Having an oblique or slanted direction.
42. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
43. A stringed instrument usually having six strings.
44. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
46. Something causes misery or death.
51. Tranquilizer (trade name Ativan) used to treat anxiety and tension and insomnia.
53. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
54. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
55. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
59. Of or relating to or characteristic of Monaco or its people.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
64. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
67. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
68. State capital and largest city of Georgia.
69. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
71. The French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec.
72. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
74. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
77. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
78. Greek mythology.
80. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
82. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
84. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
86. God of the Underworld.
87. In bed.
88. A city in southeastern Sweden.
92. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
95. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
96. A public promotion of some product or service.
97. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.

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