Crossword Puzzle Number 2554 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
5. The eighth month of the civil year.
9. Male red deer.
13. Not reflecting light.
16. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
17. The closing section of a musical composition.
18. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. The month following February and preceding April.
21. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
24. The template for protein synthesis.
26. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
27. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
28. The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.
30. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
33. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
35. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
36. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
39. Relating to or containing gas bubbles.
42. King of Scotland (died in 1057).
46. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. Having a back or backing, usually of a specified type.
52. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
53. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
56. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
57. Highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic.
60. A discrete unit of living matter.
63. Enthusiastic approval.
64. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
65. A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
66. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
67. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
69. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
70. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
71. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
74. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
76. Not out.
77. A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip).
79. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
83. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
88. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
89. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
90. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
92. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
93. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
96. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
97. A quantity of no importance.
98. By bad luck.
99. A small cake leavened with yeast.
100. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.

DOWN

1. Informal terms for a mother.
2. Remote and separate physically or socially.
3. United States composer of musical comedies (1885-1945).
4. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
5. Being nine more than ninety.
6. Port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan.
7. The sixth month of the civil year.
8. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
9. Any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of whit or mauve flowers.
10. Tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper.
11. With rapid movements.
12. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
13. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
14. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
15. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
22. A bachelor's degree in science.
23. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
25. Gone by.
29. One or some or every or all without specification.
31. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
32. South American caracara.
34. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
37. (biology) Taxonomic group whose members can interbreed.
38. Capable of being added or added to.
40. A city of southeastern Mexico.
41. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
43. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
44. Accord or comport with.
45. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
48. Belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease.
50. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
51. An Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan.
54. The front limb of a quadruped.
55. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
58. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
59. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
61. (British) Someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit.
62. An angular shape made by folding.
68. Genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers.
69. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
72. Plaything consisting of a container filled with toys and candy.
73. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
75. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
76. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
78. Elk or moose.
80. God of the underworld.
81. Affect with wonder.
82. A member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico.
84. In bed.
85. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite.
86. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
87. An informal term for a father.
91. Tag the base runner to get him out.
94. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
95. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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