Crossword Puzzle Number 4708 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
5. (British slang) Cafe.
9. Castrate, used with animals.
13. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
16. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
17. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
18. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
19. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
20. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
21. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
22. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
23. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
24. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
26. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
27. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
29. A fertility drug (trade name Clomid) that is used to stimulate ovulation and that has been associated with multiple births.
31. A low area where the land is saturated with water.
33. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
38. Towards the side away from the wind.
39. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
40. The front limb of a quadruped.
44. A glancing rebound.
48. Uncastrated adult male sheep.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
50. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
52. A three-tone Chadic language.
53. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
55. Guiding star.
57. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
58. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
60. Pioneer of non-Euclidean geometry (1826-1866).
61. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
62. Sour or bitter in taste.
63. (Scotland) A landowner.
66. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
67. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
69. Person who does no work.
70. English essayist (1775-1834).
73. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
75. American dramatist (1928- ).
78. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
82. Fallow deer.
84. Alligator-like reptile of Central and South America having a more heavily armored belly.
88. Lose blood from one's body.
89. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
92. An informal term for a father.
94. A master's degree in business.
95. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
96. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
97. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
98. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
99. A police officer who investigates crimes.
100. Indigo bush.
101. A large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel.
102. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. A caress with the lips.
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. Lacking excess flesh.
4. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
5. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
6. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
7. A metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter.
8. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land.
9. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
10. Small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
13. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
14. Clean with one's bill, of birds.
15. Distance travelled per unit time.
25. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
28. A pair of shoes with cleats on the soles.
30. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
32. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
34. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen.
35. Be a hindrance or obstacle to.
36. An enzyme that dissolves the fibrin of blood clots.
37. Terrestrial or epilithic ferns of tropical rain forests.
41. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
42. Make attractive or lovable.
43. The father of your father or mother.
45. The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).
46. An authoritative person who divines the future.
47. One who suffers for the sake of principle.
51. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
54. Dark sweet or semisweet dessert wine from Sicily.
56. United States choreographer noted for his use of African elements (born in 1931).
59. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
64. Alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass.
65. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
68. German biologist and philosopher.
69. A metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter.
71. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
72. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
74. A state in northwestern North America.
76. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
77. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
79. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
80. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
81. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
83. A French abbot.
85. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
86. Type genus of the Apidae.
87. A quantity of no importance.
90. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
91. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
93. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
94. A police officer who investigates crimes.

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