Crossword Puzzle Number 3258 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of Dadaism.
9. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
13. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
16. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
17. United States composer (born in Austria) who collaborated with Lerner on several musicals (1901-1987).
18. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
19. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
20. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
22. The organic group of acetic acid (CH3CO-).
24. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
25. Made of fir or pine.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
29. Flattery intended to persuade.
32. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
34. A landlocked republic in central Europe.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. Water frozen in the solid state.
44. Made ready or fit or suitable beforehand.
45. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
47. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
50. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
51. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
52. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
53. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
54. (of e.g. celestial bodies) Above the horizon.
55. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
57. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
58. Either extremity of something that has length.
59. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
60. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
61. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
65. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
68. The greatest possible degree of something.
69. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
71. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
73. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
76. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
79. Boxcar with latticed sides.
85. An electrically charged particle.
86. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
88. Be on one's guard.
89. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
90. Sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound).
91. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
93. The month following February and preceding April.
94. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
95. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
96. A small cake leavened with yeast.
97. One or some or every or all without specification.

DOWN

1. In bed.
2. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
3. A member of the South American people living in Argentina and Bolivia and Paraguay.
4. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
5. A city in southwestern Virginia.
6. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Nepal or its people or language or culture.
7. The compass point midway between south and west.
8. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
9. A city in northwestern Syria.
10. An established ceremony prescribed by a religion.
11. Childcare during the day while parents work.
12. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
15. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
21. A ketone that forms the nucleus of certain natural yellow pigments like riboflavin.
23. Affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way.
28. A mountain in south central Alaska.
30. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
31. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. Someone who plays the bagpipe.
35. Any of a group of enzymes (trade name Lactaid) that hydrolyze lactose to glucose and galactose.
36. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
37. Mediterranean liliaceous plants.
38. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
39. City in western Colombia.
40. Order of mammals having few or no teeth including.
43. A great raja.
46. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
48. Enthusiastic approval.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
56. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
62. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
63. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
64. A framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air.
66. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
67. Slightly sour to the taste.
68. The compass point midway between south and west.
70. A colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis.
72. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
74. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
75. The recipient of funds or other benefits.
77. Remove from memory or existence.
78. One million periods per second.
80. Asiatic wild dog.
81. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
82. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
83. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
84. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
87. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
92. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
93. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.

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