Crossword Puzzle Number 5017 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
4. In addition.
8. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
12. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
16. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
17. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
18. Very dark black.
19. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
20. Without offspring.
22. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
24. (computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
25. American novelist (1909-1955).
26. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
28. United States minimalist painter (born in 1936).
30. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
32. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
33. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
37. A light touch or stroke.
39. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
40. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
41. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
45. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
49. Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment.
52. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
53. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
54. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
55. Greek wine flavored with resin.
58. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
59. The residue that remains when something is burned.
60. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
61. Related on the mother's side.
62. An antibiotic (trade name Nebcin) that is especially effective against gram-negative bacteria.
66. An Asian river between China and Russia.
67. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
68. A republic in northeastern South America on the Atlantic.
72. The basic unit of money in Lesotho.
73. Loose or flaccid body fat.
74. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
76. Smeared with oil or grease to reduce friction.
79. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
83. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.
86. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
90. Closed with a lace.
91. Involving the entire earth.
93. A telegram sent abroad.
94. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
95. Type genus of the Amiidae.
97. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
99. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
100. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
101. Having been read.
102. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
103. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.

DOWN

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
3. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
4. (informal) Of the highest quality.
5. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
6. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
7. A board with the alphabet on it.
8. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
9. At or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane.
10. A member of the Dravidian people living in the Nilgiri hills in southern India.
11. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
12. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
13. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
14. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
15. Tropical Asian starlings.
21. An unsaturated alcohol that occurs in marine fish-liver oils and is synthesized biologically from carotene.
23. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
27. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
29. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
31. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
34. (psychoanalysis) That part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience.
35. By bad luck.
36. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
38. Frivolous banter.
42. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
43. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
44. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
46. The capital of Bahrain.
47. A dilute solution of acetic acid that is used as a solvent (e.g. for a drug).
48. Old World woody vines.
50. Any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails.
51. The act of transporting something from one location to another.
56. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
57. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
63. Expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase.
64. Ulcerated chilblain on the heel.
65. Half the width of an em.
69. Pain in the gums.
70. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
71. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
75. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
77. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
78. Locate and correct errors in a computer program code.
79. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
80. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
81. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
82. Moving very fast.
84. A quantity of no importance.
85. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
87. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
88. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
89. A vigorous blow.
90. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
92. A boy or man.
96. A state in New England.
98. Being nine more than forty.

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