Crossword Puzzle Number 5110 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
8. The compass point that is one point west of northwest.
12. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
16. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
17. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
18. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
19. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
20. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
21. Genus of tropical shrubs and trees having usually odd-pinnate leaves with large leaflets and pink to reddish wood.
23. The ohmic resistance of a conductor.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
29. A church associated with a monastery or convent.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. A genus of Mustelidae.
34. Grow together (of plants and organs).
42. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
43. Moving toward the east.
47. Belonging to some prior time.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. A protective structure resembling a scale.
51. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
52. Perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere.
53. A son who has the same first name as his father.
54. A depression in an otherwise level surface.
55. A licensed medical practitioner.
58. Speak in a nasal voice.
61. Affect with wonder.
63. Unable to move or resist motion.
65. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
66. A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter.
67. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
68. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
70. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
73. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
74. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
75. Common Indian weaverbird.
77. The mints.
80. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
81. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
83. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
84. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
88. The ending of a series or sequence.
91. A means of serving.
95. An associate degree in applied science.
96. A small nail.
98. The sixth month of the civil year.
101. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
102. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
103. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
104. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
105. Originally a stronghold captured by David (the 2nd king of the Israelites).
106. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
107. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
108. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
109. An enclosed armored military vehicle.

DOWN

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
7. (archaic) Utterly cast down.
8. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
9. English poet who introduced the sonnet form to English literature (1503-1542).
10. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
11. A United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services.
12. Oral antiarrhythmic medication (trade name Tambocor) used as a last resort in treating arrhythmias.
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. A feeling of intense anger.
15. An endorsement.
22. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
24. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
26. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
28. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
31. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
33. Goddess of fate.
35. Green turtles.
36. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
37. A change for the better.
38. Relating to or having the characteristics of a family.
39. Of or at or relating to an anode.
40. Type genus of the Schizaeaceae cosmopolitan especially in tropics.
41. (Brit) UK decimal coin worth ten pennies.
44. Short and fat.
45. (trademark) An antacid.
46. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
50. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
56. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
57. A New England state.
59. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
60. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
62. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
64. Make reference to.
69. A master's degree in business.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
76. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
78. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
79. (Greek mythology) The Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry.
80. How long something has existed.
82. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
83. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
85. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
86. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
87. A French abbot.
89. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
90. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
92. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
93. (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.
94. Long and thin and often limp.
97. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
99. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
100. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.

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