Crossword Puzzle Number 5106 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants.
5. (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.
9. A city in northern India.
13. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
16. Type genus of the Amiidae.
17. Sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep.
18. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
19. Used of a single unit or thing.
20. Handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute.
21. Excessively fat.
24. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
25. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
28. Lengthen in time.
32. A family of birds coextensive with the order Rheiformes.
35. Poor handwriting.
38. Not easy.
39. The part of the Earth's surface between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
42. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
43. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
44. An associate degree in nursing.
45. American novelist (1909-1955).
47. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
49. A genus of European owls.
51. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
53. A chronic ulcer of the skin caused by prolonged pressure on it (as in bedridden patients).
54. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
55. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
57. A quantity of no importance.
59. A person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant).
62. Of or relating to or located at the base.
63. The principal dish of a meal.
65. Capable of wounding.
67. A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral.
68. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
69. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
71. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
73. Selected as the best.
76. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
79. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
82. Elephant seals.
86. Genus of American of east Asian perennial herbs with yellow to orange or red flower rays.
88. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
89. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
90. Small goat antelope with small conical horns.
92. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
93. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
94. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
95. Fill with high spirits.
96. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
97. The bill in a restaurant.

DOWN

1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. A primeval personification of air and breath.
3. A red ocher formerly used as a pigment.
4. Freetail bats.
5. Increase in extent or intensity.
6. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
7. Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc..
8. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
9. An associate degree in applied science.
10. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
11. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
12. Before noon.
13. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
14. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
15. A notable achievement.
22. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
23. Type genus of the Otariidae.
26. Type genus of the Coerebidae.
27. Not in good physical or mental health.
29. A doctor's degree in optometry.
30. Omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North and Central America.
31. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
33. A fishing line managed principally by hand.
34. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
36. German biologist who was one of the founders of modern genetics.
37. Skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls.
40. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
41. French playwright (1791-1861).
46. Great brightness.
48. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
50. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
52. (usually in the plural) A garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately.
56. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
58. A port city in western Kenya on the northeastern shore of Lake Victoria.
60. 16 ounces.
61. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
64. Trade name for an antiemetic drug that has a mint flavor.
65. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
66. Plant materials and animal waste used as fuel.
67. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
70. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
72. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
74. Owing or owed feudal allegiance and service.
75. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
77. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
78. 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.
80. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
81. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
83. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
84. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
85. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
87. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
91. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).

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