Crossword Puzzle Number 3285 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
4. A drawing illustrating the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes.
9. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
13. (informal) Of very poor quality.
16. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
17. Region of western Asia Minor colonized by Ancient Greeks.
18. Perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere.
19. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
20. Tropical American bird resembling a blue jay and having greenish and bluish plumage.
22. A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty.
25. A public square with room for pedestrians.
26. Deprive of by deceit.
27. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
28. Durable fragrant wood.
30. A town in northern Egypt.
32. British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the Empress of India (1804-1881).
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. A city in northeastern France in Lorraine.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
42. A small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics.
46. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
47. Of or relating to the wrist.
49. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
50. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
53. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
54. Having a border especially of a specified kind.
56. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
58. American poet (born in England) (1907-1973).
59. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
62. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
63. A small cut.
67. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
68. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
71. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
72. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
73. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
74. Highly excited.
76. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
79. Anneal or toughen by a process of gradually heating and cooling.
82. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
89. A state of irritation or annoyance.
91. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
92. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
93. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
94. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
95. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
96. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
97. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
98. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
99. Former measure of the US economy.

DOWN

1. Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce).
2. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
3. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
4. A Spanish female Gypsy.
5. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
6. Of or at or relating to an anode.
7. Derived from pepper (especially black pepper).
8. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
9. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
10. In a pious manner.
11. Ice cream served with a topping.
12. The square of a body of any size of type.
13. Boas and pythons.
14. Relating to or near the ulna.
15. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
21. An area of low mountains in northwestern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma.
23. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
24. A sweet filling made of prunes or apricots.
29. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. Locked in by ice.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. The sign language used in the United States.
38. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
40. An artist of consummate skill.
41. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
43. Morally degraded.
44. A member of the Tungus speaking people of Mongolian race who are a nomadic people widely spread over eastern Siberia.
45. (informal) Of the highest quality.
48. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
51. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
52. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
55. A period of 10 years.
57. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
60. Lacking a crew.
61. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
64. (chemistry) Relating to or containing an alkali.
65. A French abbot.
66. A human limb.
69. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
70. A city of central Russia south of Moscow.
75. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
77. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
78. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
80. A quantity of no importance.
81. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
83. 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.
84. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
85. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
87. (British) Informal term for information.
88. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
89. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
90. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.

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