Crossword Puzzle Number 5045 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Greenish-yellow pear.
5. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
9. Leafless East Indian vine.
13. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
16. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
17. French poet and novelist and dramatist.
18. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. A cruel and brutal fellow.
20. Baby bed with high sides.
21. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
23. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
25. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
27. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
28. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
29. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
31. The closing section of a musical composition.
33. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
38. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
41. A doctor's degree in optometry.
42. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
43. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
45. United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944).
47. Amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride.
49. A family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the midwest by Caddo peoples.
50. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
51. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
53. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
54. Being one more than fifty.
55. An accountant certified by the state.
56. Steal goods.
60. Repeated regularly without thought or originality.
63. Highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet.
65. The content of cognition.
66. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
67. A farewell remark.
68. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
70. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
72. Half the width of an em.
73. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
75. A nation in northern North America.
77. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
79. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
80. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
83. The complete duration of something.
85. Fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo.
90. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
92. Any of various plants of the genus Albuca having large clusters of pale yellow flowers.
93. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
94. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
95. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
97. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
98. Being one more than two.
99. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
100. Order by virtue of superior authority.
101. A small cake leavened with yeast.
102. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.

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1. Related to or located at the back.
2. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
3. A vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels.
4. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
5. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
6. A member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910).
9. A branch of the Tai languages.
10. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
11. 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.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. City in Sudan.
14. A wine bottle made of leather.
15. Very dark black.
22. The arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair).
24. Spread or daub over.
26. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
30. A tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area.
32. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
34. The state capital of South Australia.
35. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
36. Cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. Treated with excessive indulgence.
40. City in central Iran.
44. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
46. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
48. Tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes.
52. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
57. Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs.
58. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
59. All the plant and animal life of a particular region.
61. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
62. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
64. Perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop.
69. Enact or perform again.
71. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
74. State capital of Texas and site of the University of Texas.
76. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
78. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
81. Any cone-shaped artifact.
82. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
84. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
86. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
87. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
88. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
89. Make editorial changes (in a text).
91. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
96. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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