Crossword Puzzle Number 3088 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
5. Of or relating to or characteristic of Assam or its people or culture.
13. A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around.
17. A specific instance of feeling hopeful.
18. Someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty.
19. Have confidence or faith in.
20. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
21. Large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth.
22. Involving the entire earth.
24. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
26. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
27. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
28. A province of southern China.
31. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
34. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
38. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
40. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
43. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
47. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
48. A large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression.
49. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
50. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
52. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
54. A state in New England.
55. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.
57. Thick end of the handle.
58. A state in New England.
59. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
60. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
62. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
63. Joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces.
65. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
66. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
70. Be going to.
72. Being nine more than ninety.
73. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
75. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
76. Informal terms for a mother.
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
79. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
82. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
85. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
87. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
91. Genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers.
93. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
95. The cry made by sheep.
96. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
97. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
99. Type genus of the Majidae.
100. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
101. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
102. A sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay.
103. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
104. A young woman making her debut into society.

DOWN

1. Wearing footgear.
2. A member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona.
3. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
4. The process of gradually becoming inferior.
5. Of southern Europe.
6. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
7. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
8. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
9. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling.
10. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
11. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
12. A cgs unit of work or energy.
13. An unusually talented or intelligent child.
14. Used by northerners of Confederate soldiers.
15. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
16. (trademark) A thin polyester film.
23. Lacking excess flesh.
25. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
29. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
30. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
32. A scholar who specializes in Arab languages and culture.
33. An atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance.
35. The length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere.
36. (Greek mythology) The son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
37. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
39. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
41. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
42. Loose or flaccid body fat.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. Genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas.
46. Challenge the honesty or credibility of.
51. City in northwestern Jordan.
53. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
56. A heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects).
61. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
64. A great raja.
67. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
69. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
70. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling.
71. A local computer network for communication between computers.
74. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
77. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
78. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
80. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
81. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
83. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
84. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
86. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
88. In bed.
89. Denuded of leaves.
90. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
92. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
94. The bill in a restaurant.
98. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).

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