Crossword Puzzle Number 5053 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
4. Venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood.
9. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
13. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
16. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
17. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
18. A city in northern India.
19. Something that remunerates.
20. Coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position.
22. Poorly done.
25. Soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
26. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. Jordan's port.
33. A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended.
36. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
41. Any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers.
42. Traveling on horseback.
45. An orderly arrangement.
46. Economic independence as a national policy.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. Liquid excretory product.
49. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
54. The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
57. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
60. Old World genus of annual to perennial herbs.
61. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
62. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
63. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
67. English architect (1746-1813).
69. Offering fun and gaiety.
72. A medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck.
75. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
77. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
80. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
84. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
86. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
88. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
91. The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.
92. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
93. A member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California.
95. Expressed without speech.
96. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
97. A Spanish title of respect for a gentleman or nobleman.
98. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
99. Chief port of Yemen.
100. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.

DOWN

1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
3. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
4. Separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument.
5. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
6. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
7. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
8. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
9. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. Free from liquid or moisture.
12. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
13. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
14. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
15. Type genus of the Hylidae.
21. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
23. A town twenty miles east of Rome (Tibur is the ancient name).
24. (law) A formal objection to an opponent's pleadings.
27. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
28. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
30. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. A hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia.
35. Hold spellbound.
37. A city in Veneto on the River Adige.
38. Preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed.
39. East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry.
40. The range of the eye.
43. A doctor's degree in optometry.
44. Powdery starch from certain sago palms.
51. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
52. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
55. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
56. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
58. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
59. Relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts.
65. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
66. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
68. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
69. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
70. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
71. Wild ginger.
73. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
74. Informal terms for a mother.
76. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
78. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
79. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force.
81. The capital and largest city of Norway.
82. A commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River.
83. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
85. (Welsh) A warrior god.
87. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
89. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
90. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
94. An informal term for a father.

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