Crossword Puzzle Number 5015 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A port in southwestern Scotland.
4. A smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure.
9. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. United States architect (born in China in 1917).
17. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
18. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
19. (informal) Roused to anger.
20. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
21. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the western Dakotas.
24. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
25. Relating to the Andes and their inhabitants.
26. Above the surround or above the normal position.
28. (Welsh myth) The other world.
30. A curved piece above the wheel of a bicycle or motorcycle to protect the rider from water or mud thrown up by the wheels.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
34. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
37. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
41. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
43. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
45. A lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis.
46. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
48. A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times.
49. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
52. A town in southern Minnesota.
53. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
54. A public promotion of some product or service.
55. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
58. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
59. A genus of Strigidae.
61. A downhill race over a winding course defined by upright poles.
65. (Greek mythology) Any of the 50 sea nymphs who were daughters of the sea god Nereus.
67. True firs.
68. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
69. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
70. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
71. The square of a body of any size of type.
73. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
75. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
76. A nettle yielding fiber resembling flax.
79. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
81. (Greek mythology) Fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail.
88. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
89. Someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs).
91. A small skullcap.
92. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
93. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
94. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
96. An accountant certified by the state.
97. The basic unit of money in Albania.
98. Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide.
99. A small cake leavened with yeast.
100. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
101. Before noon.

DOWN

1. Transient cessation of respiration.
2. Desire strongly or persistently.
3. A ribbon used as a decoration.
4. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
6. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
7. The tissue forming the hard outer layer of e.g. a fruit.
8. A Japanese (paper or silk) wall hanging.
9. The father of your father or mother.
10. An accidental happening.
11. An automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger.
12. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
13. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
14. Denuded of leaves.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
22. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
23. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. Any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food.
32. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
33. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
35. Genus of tropical American orchids.
36. The outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue.
38. A tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks.
39. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
40. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
42. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
44. Thorn apple.
47. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
50. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
51. Be in contradiction with.
56. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
57. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
60. The oily secretion of the sebaceous glands.
62. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
63. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
64. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
66. Wipe away.
67. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
72. An optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects.
74. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
77. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
78. Any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis.
80. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
82. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
83. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
84. Taken or to be taken at random.
85. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
86. Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used.
87. Made of fir or pine.
90. A heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge.
95. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.

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