Crossword Puzzle Number 1708 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A flexible container with a single opening.
4. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
9. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
13. The act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
18. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
19. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
20. A wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip.
22. (Greek mythology) The ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades.
24. The basic unit of money in Albania.
25. In a competent capable manner.
27. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
29. Deliberately arranged for effect.
31. An appearance of reflected light.
32. A White Protestant of Anglo-Saxon ancestry.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
37. A city in west central Mexico.
41. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
44. Very dark black.
45. Any loose flowing garment.
46. A dark gray volcanic rock.
49. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
52. Type genus of the family Crangonidae.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
57. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
58. Spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness.
63. Being one more than fifty.
64. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
68. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
70. A shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot.
72. Distance travelled per unit time.
73. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
77. A river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay.
83. Gone by.
84. Without moral standards or principles.
86. An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event.
87. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
88. Tie again or anew.
90. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
92. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
93. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
94. Appeal or request earnestly.
95. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
96. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.

DOWN

1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
4. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
5. Goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis.
6. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
7. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
8. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
9. The largest city of China.
10. (formal) A person who announces important news.
11. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
12. Having toothlike projections in the margin.
13. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
21. Difficult or labored respiration.
23. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
26. All the New World monkeys except marmosets and tamarins.
28. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
30. The father of your father or mother.
33. Like an amoeba (especially in having a variable irregular shape).
34. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
36. Affected manners intended to impress others.
38. Usually considered as comprising orangutans.
39. Bring something new to an environment.
40. A weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts).
42. Informal terms for a mother.
43. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
47. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
48. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
53. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
55. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
56. Hang loosely or laxly.
59. (Arthurian legend) The battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded.
60. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
61. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
62. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
65. A lack of vitality.
66. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
67. Used of persons.
69. A town in central Belgium.
71. Expose to fresh air, as of old clothing.
74. Someone who is regarded as contemptible.
75. Support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete.
76. The eleventh month of the civil year.
78. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
79. A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.
80. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
81. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
82. By bad luck.
85. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
89. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
91. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
92. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.

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