Crossword Puzzle Number 3096 (Large Grid)

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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. Lower in esteem.
9. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
17. (Greek mythology) King of Thebes who was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus.
18. The small projection of a mammary gland.
19. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
20. A light touch or stroke.
21. English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression.
22. Capable of wounding.
24. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
26. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
27. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
29. A long seat for more than one person.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
36. A member of the Siouan people of Virginia and North Carolina.
40. Of or relating to or containing barium.
42. A flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery).
46. A draft horse harnessed alongside the shaft or pole of a vehicle.
47. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
49. In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
51. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
52. Something (especially a game) that is played again.
54. Someone who operates an aircraft.
56. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
57. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
58. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
60. The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes.
62. Being one more than two.
64. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
66. A port city in southwestern Iran.
67. The capital and largest city of Liechtenstein.
70. A fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar).
72. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
73. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
74. Of or relating to or consisting of enol.
76. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
78. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
80. In some classifications considered a genus of the subfamily Lutrinae.
82. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
83. (Mexican) Ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans.
85. (of sounds) Repeating by reflection.
90. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
93. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
95. A branch of the Tai languages.
97. A flexible container with a single opening.
98. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
99. A small wooded hollow.
100. Being three more than fifty.
101. A unit of pressure.
102. indicate by signs.
103. The capital and largest city of Norway.
104. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
105. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.

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1. An informal term for a father.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. A steerable self-propelled airship.
7. Type genus of the Sulidae.
8. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
9. An advantageous purchase.
10. 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.
11. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
12. Support consisting of metal loops into which rider's feet go.
13. Armor plate that protects the chest.
14. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
15. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
23. Used by Maoris for thatching.
25. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
28. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
30. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
31. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
33. Of or relating to the French dynasty founded by Hugh Capet.
35. (Welsh) Goddess famous for her beauty.
37. Any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres.
38. Sweetened beverage of diluted lemon juice.
39. Palms of southern Mexico to northern South America.
41. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
43. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
44. Wig for men fashionable in 17th-18th centuries.
45. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
48. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
50. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
53. One who works hard at boring tasks.
55. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
59. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
61. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
63. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god).
65. 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.
68. Emit long loud cries.
69. Medium-sized tubular pasta in short pieces.
71. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
75. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
77. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
79. A motley assortment of things.
80. Black tropical American cuckoo.
81. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
82. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
84. A disreputable vagrant.
85. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
86. Any small compartment.
87. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
88. A small island.
89. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
90. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
91. A door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall.
92. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
94. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
95. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
96. Related by blood.

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