Crossword Puzzle Number 2991 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
9. A professional cook.
13. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
16. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
17. One of the green parts that form the calyx of a flower.
18. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
19. A flexible container with a single opening.
20. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
21. A hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover.
22. Of or relating to or characteristic of wolves n.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. A member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. A small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord.
30. African antelope with ridged curved horns.
32. A player who makes a score in a game or contest.
35. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
37. (usually in the plural) Pants for casual wear.
40. A circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue.
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
45. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn.
48. In the Roman calendar.
50. Caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted.
51. A doctor's degree in music.
52. French physicist who invented polarized light and invented the Fresnel lens (1788-1827).
55. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
56. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
57. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
58. South American caracara.
60. Of or relating to near the ear.
62. Without fat or fat solids.
65. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
66. A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles.
67. Individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell.
68. Lower in esteem.
70. Lean end of the neck.
72. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
74. A seat with a cushion that is used as a throne by Indian princes.
79. Primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue.
83. Extremely robust.
87. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
88. A festival featuring African-American culture.
90. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
91. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
92. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
93. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
95. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
96. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
97. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
98. Productive work (especially physical work done for wages).
99. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
4. An analyst who assays (performs chemical tests on) metals.
5. A squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit.
6. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
7. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.
8. Capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression.
9. A fertility drug (trade name Clomid) that is used to stimulate ovulation and that has been associated with multiple births.
10. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
11. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism.
13. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
14. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
15. Advanced in years.
23. East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan.
25. Genus of much-branched treelike or shrubby cacti with pronounced ribs and rounded needlelike spines and nocturnal flowers usually white.
27. Before noon.
31. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
33. Of or relating to a climate.
34. Someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there.
36. A quantity that is added.
38. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
39. Supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction.
41. Italian poet (1569-1625).
43. Make a logical or causal connection.
46. A master's degree in fine arts.
47. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
49. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
53. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
54. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
59. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
61. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
63. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
64. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
69. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
70. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
71. A member of a Hindu people descended from Brahmins and Rajputs who live in Nepal.
73. Of or relating to a septum.
75. Fastened with stitches.
76. City in Sudan.
77. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
78. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
80. In bed.
81. A female domestic.
82. The handle of a weapon or tool.
83. Used in combination to denote the middle.
84. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
85. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
86. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
89. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
90. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
94. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
95. A female person who has the same parents as another person.

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