Crossword Puzzle Number 1696 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
9. A member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries.
13. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. A boat with a flat bottom for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).
18. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
19. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.
20. Genus of tropical hardwood timber trees.
22. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
24. Meeting adequate standards for a purpose.
25. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
26. (Babylonian) Any of a group of powerful earth spirits or genii.
29. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
31. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
32. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
33. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
34. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
37. A French abbot.
38. An informal term for a father.
40. Resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible.
46. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
48. United States Film actress and daughter of Henry Fonda (born in 1937).
51. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
52. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
54. Make off with belongings of others.
55. How long something has existed.
57. Small genus of South American evergreen vines.
60. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
61. A bony hollow into which a structure fits.
64. Snarled or stalled in complete confusion.
65. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
66. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
67. The cry made by sheep.
70. Humorously vulgar.
72. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
74. A festival featuring African-American culture.
78. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
79. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
80. (informal) Exceptionally good.
82. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
85. Someone who operates an aircraft.
87. (Phoenician and Philistine) God of agriculture and the earth.
91. Of or relating to a nail or claw or hoof.
94. Large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia.
96. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
97. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
98. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
100. (Greek mythology) Winged goddess of victory.
101. A notable achievement.
102. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
103. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
104. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
105. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

DOWN

1. Do wrongly or improperly.
2. Income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time.
3. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
4. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
5. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
6. The father of your father or mother.
7. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
8. Power to control.
9. Music composed for dancing the saraband.
10. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
11. A family of birds coextensive with the order Rheiformes.
12. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
13. Remove completely from recognition or memory.
14. British admiral.
15. Broad-winged soaring hawks.
21. (used especially of glances) Directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy.
23. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
27. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
28. Language of the people of Cebu in the Philippines.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. (British slang) Cafe.
36. A popular island resort off the northeastern tip of the Yucatan peninsula.
39. A mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture).
41. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
42. A singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive.
43. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
44. Small individual study area in a library.
45. A former Turkish term of respect.
47. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).
49. An honorary degree in science.
50. A motley assortment of things.
53. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
56. A Mid-Atlantic state.
58. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
59. 100 aurar equal 1 krona.
62. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
63. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
68. A Loloish language.
69. Expected hopefully.
70. Power to control.
71. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
72. Remove completely from recognition or memory.
73. Being one more than fifty.
75. A city in northern India.
76. Inclined to or serving for the giving of names.
77. A member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec.
81. A public promotion of some product or service.
83. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
84. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
86. The capital of Western Samoa.
87. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
88. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
89. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
90. A quantity of no importance.
92. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
93. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
94. An informal term for a father.
95. Remaining after all deductions.
99. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.

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