Crossword Puzzle Number 3424 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
4. A puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words.
9. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
16. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
17. Something that happens at a given place and time.
18. In bed.
19. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
20. A discrete unit of living matter.
22. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
24. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
26. Cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes.
27. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
29. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
30. 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.
32. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
39. A motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities.
41. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
44. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
47. In an unnatural eery manner.
51. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
52. A tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor).
53. American civil rights worker in Mississippi.
54. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
55. The eleventh month of the civil year.
56. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
59. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
63. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
64. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
70. A special way of doing something.
71. Hard fiber used in making coarse twine.
73. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
74. An associate degree in nursing.
75. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
76. Chief port of Yemen.
82. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
86. (informal) Exceptionally good.
89. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
90. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
92. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
94. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
95. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
96. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
97. A small cake leavened with yeast.
98. The compass point midway between northeast and east.

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1. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.
2. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
3. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
4. Revise or reorganize, esp. for the purpose of updating and improving.
5. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
6. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
7. Not subjected to an aging process.
8. Sound of strumming.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
11. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
14. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
15. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
21. (of groups of people) Tending to travel and change settlements frequently.
23. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
25. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. The branch of geology that studies the shape of the earth and the determination of the exact position of geographical points.
31. The cry made by sheep.
33. A person who makes use of a thing.
36. (Welsh) Corresponds to Iris Ler.
37. A synthetic type of penicillin antibiotic (trade name Pipracil) used for moderate to severe infections.
38. Little known Kamarupan languages.
40. (pathology) A firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin.
42. A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another.
43. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
45. Any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers.
46. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
48. Leader in the women's suffrage movement in Montana.
49. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
50. A man who serves as a sailor.
55. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
57. God of death.
58. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
60. Border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug).
61. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
62. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
66. Enduring strength and energy.
67. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
68. Chinese evergreen conifer discovered in 1955.
69. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ireland or its people.
72. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
77. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
78. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
79. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
80. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
81. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
83. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
84. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
85. Give over.
87. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
88. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
91. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
93. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.

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