Crossword Puzzle Number 3045 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Preserve of crushed fruit.
4. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
8. South African term for `boss'.
12. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
18. Of or relating to near the ear.
19. A European river.
20. The time period between dawn and noon.
22. Flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds.
24. All the plant life in a particular region.
25. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
29. Very dark black.
30. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
31. Czech dramatist and statesman whose plays opposed totalitarianism and who served as president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and president of the Czech Republic since 1993 (born in 1936).
32. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
34. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
36. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
40. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
43. Spiritual being attendant upon God.
45. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
47. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
49. An aromatic balsam.
50. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
52. Noisy talk.
54. A human limb.
55. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
56. An informal term for a father.
58. A city and port in northern Jutland.
61. Lacking any definite plan or order or purpose.
63. Not easy.
65. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
66. A machine or person that adds.
68. The cry made by sheep.
69. A human female who does housework.
70. Impaired by diminution.
73. The last (12th) month of the year.
75. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
76. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
77. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
79. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
81. A person who makes use of a thing.
84. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
87. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
89. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
92. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
93. Herbs of Europe and North Africa and Asia.
95. A genus of Mustelidae.
96. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
98. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
100. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
101. A loud harsh or strident noise.
102. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
103. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
104. How long something has existed.
105. A Mid-Atlantic state.

DOWN

1. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
2. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
3. The basic unit of money in Finland.
4. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
5. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
6. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. A dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae having drupaceous fruit.
8. 3rd largest island in the world.
9. An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon.
10. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
11. A white trivalent metallic element.
12. Showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others.
13. (Philippine) A dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish.
14. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
15. The mother of your father or mother.
21. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
23. Troops trained to fight on horseback.
26. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
27. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
28. Noisy talk.
33. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
35. Sweetened beverage of diluted lemon juice.
37. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
38. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
39. An idle slothful person.
41. State in northeastern India.
42. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
44. A waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow.
46. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.
48. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
51. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god).
53. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
57. Advanced in years.
59. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
60. Resembling a berry.
62. Go away from the surface to which it is adsorbed, of a substance.
64. In bed.
67. A synthetic corticosteroid (trade names Aristocort or Aristopak or Kenalog) used as an anti-inflammatory agent.
68. A dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae having drupaceous fruit.
71. Large Indian antelope.
72. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
74. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
78. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high).
80. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
81. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
82. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
83. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
85. Avatar of Vishnu.
86. Any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae.
87. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
88. A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink.
90. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
91. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
94. Being one more than two.
97. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
99. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
100. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.

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