Crossword Puzzle Number 650 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A port in southwestern Scotland.
4. East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok.
9. A set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents.
13. A master's degree in business.
16. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
17. Not in a state of sleep.
18. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
19. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
20. Any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers.
23. A public announcement (in church) of a proposed marriage.
25. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
26. Of or relating to or characteristic of Angola or its people.
29. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
32. The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.
34. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
41. Any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue.
43. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
47. (Greek mythology) The beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris.
48. A public promotion of some product or service.
49. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
50. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
51. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
52. Supported financially.
56. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
57. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
59. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
60. The act of escaping physically.
63. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
64. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
66. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
68. Large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins.
69. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
70. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
72. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
74. Dwell (archaic).
77. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
79. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
81. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
83. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
87. A genus of Ploceidae.
91. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
92. Remote and separate physically or socially.
95. Any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule.
97. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
98. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
99. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
100. A small island.
101. An accountant certified by the state.
102. A local computer network for communication between computers.
103. Appeal or request earnestly.
104. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
105. Related by blood.

DOWN

1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. River in eastern Asia.
3. Taking place over public roads.
4. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
5. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
6. Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression).
7. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
8. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
9. Heal or recover.
10. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
11. A form of address for a man.
12. A three-year law degree.
13. A singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive.
14. Of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture.
15. State in northeastern India.
21. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
22. A cruel and brutal fellow.
24. Inability to walk.
27. The father of your father or mother.
28. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
33. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
35. Elect again.
36. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
38. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
39. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
42. A river in Germany.
44. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
45. In a condition for letting out liquid drawn out as by piercing or drawing a plug.
46. An addition that extends a main building.
53. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
54. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
55. A Mid-Atlantic state.
58. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
61. A fraudulent business scheme.
62. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
65. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
67. Admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior.
71. A unit of potential equal to a thousand volts.
73. The magnetic field strength 1 cm from a unit magnetic pole.
75. Relating to the Andes and their inhabitants.
76. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
78. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
80. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
81. A public promotion of some product or service.
82. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
83. Unknown god.
84. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
85. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
86. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
88. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
89. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
90. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
93. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
94. How long something has existed.
96. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.

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