Crossword Puzzle Number 2989 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. A street of small shops (especially in Orient).
9. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
13. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
16. Cut off from a whole.
17. Lower in esteem.
18. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
19. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. Tibetan Buddhism having great variety in its ritual practices and a complex hierarchical organization.
23. (Arthurian legend) A nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table.
25. God of wealth and love.
27. (of tempo) Moderately slow n.
28. In or of the present month.
29. A Spanish female Gypsy.
31. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
32. An Asian river.
34. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
36. The cry made by sheep.
39. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
41. A battle between the French and an alliance of Spaniards and Swiss and Venetians in 1512.
45. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
48. The central area of a church.
49. Similar to the color of a ripe orange.
51. A slender double-reed instrument.
53. A small cave (usually with attractive features).
54. The event of being born.
55. An intuitive awareness.
56. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
58. An island in the Persian Gulf.
59. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
60. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
62. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
63. A source of the dye archil and of litmus.
65. City in northeast Pakistan.
67. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
69. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
70. The habitation of wild animals.
71. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
72. An association of criminals.
74. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
75. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
79. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
81. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
83. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
87. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
91. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
93. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
94. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
96. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
98. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
99. Goddess of fate.
100. Characterized by dignity and propriety.
101. A small cake leavened with yeast.
102. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.

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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
3. A chock or bar wedged under a wheel or between the spokes to prevent a vehicle from rolling down an incline.
4. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
7. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
8. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
9. A genus of Lamnidae.
10. A state in northwestern North America.
11. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
12. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
13. A person of mean disposition.
14. Of or relating to Switzerland or its people or culture.
15. Coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position.
22. United States writer (born 1919).
24. Widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green.
26. Instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which condemned persons are executed by hanging.
30. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
33. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
35. Very dark gray.
37. Someone who patronizes prostitutes.
38. A genus of Fasciolidae.
40. Admit openly and bluntly.
42. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
43. Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574).
44. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
46. American mountain mint.
47. Learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it.
50. (used to introduce a logical conclusion) From that fact or reason or as a result.
52. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
57. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
61. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
64. Submerged freshwater perennials.
66. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
68. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
73. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
74. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
76. become turned or set on end.
77. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
78. A cloth having a crisscross design.
80. Any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers.
82. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
83. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
84. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
85. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
86. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
88. A couple who both have careers and no children.
89. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
90. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
92. The square of a body of any size of type.
95. An honorary degree in science.
97. A Russian river.

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