Crossword Puzzle Number 3052 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
4. Having a sharp inclination.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
16. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
17. A genus of Pyralidae.
18. A metal piece (usually a disc) used as money v 1.
19. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
20. Tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly.
22. Shrubby plant with aromatic grayish-green leaves used as a cooking herb.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. God of fire.
26. Having or resembling a lobe or lobes.
28. Wife of Balder.
29. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
30. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland.
32. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
33. Divulge information or secrets.
34. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. A council convened to discuss ecclesiastical business.
43. Avatar of Vishnu.
47. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
48. A citizen who has a legal right to vote.
50. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
51. Of or relating to near the ear.
52. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
53. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
55. Tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood.
56. Evoking or deserving hatred.
58. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
59. Floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile).
60. A unit of pressure.
61. (British informal) Not to be deceived or hoodwinked n 1.
65. The food served and eaten at one time.
67. Having lost freshness or brilliance of color.
72. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
74. In operation or operational.
76. A professional cook.
77. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
79. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
81. Delivered from danger.
83. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
87. Jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds.
89. A side road little traveled (as in the countryside).
91. An associate degree in applied science.
92. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
93. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
95. Beyond what is natural.
96. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
97. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
98. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
99. (Old Testament) Third son of Adam.
100. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
101. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.

DOWN

1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. A large mass of ice floating at sea.
3. Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
4. An honorary degree in science.
5. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
6. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
7. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
8. Cause to be paralyzed and immobile.
9. The highest level or degree attainable.
10. A farewell remark.
11. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
12. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
13. Lacking excess flesh.
14. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
15. God of death.
21. An upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments.
23. Spider monkeys.
27. South African term for `boss'.
29. An ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles.
31. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
35. Examine by palpation for medical purposes.
37. In a wary manner.
38. On or toward the lee.
40. A person who practices nudity for reasons of health or religion.
41. Abnormally small production of urine.
42. 1/10 gram.
44. A retailer of meat.
45. (botany) Of a cylindrical or ellipsoid body.
46. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
49. An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.
54. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
57. The quality of being mediate.
62. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
63. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
64. English monk and scholar (672-735).
66. Type genus of the Lycaenidae.
67. An honorary degree in science.
68. The cry made by sheep.
70. Wearing footgear.
71. Filled with fear or apprehension.
73. Someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication.
75. Greek mythology.
76. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
78. The basic unit of money in Sierra Leone.
80. A small cut of meat including part of a rib.
82. Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox.
84. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
85. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
86. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
88. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
90. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
94. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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