Crossword Puzzle Number 5118 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
8. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
12. A bachelor's degree in music.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
18. A Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle.
19. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
20. Transactions having the objective of supplying commodities.
22. The income arising from land or other property.
23. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
24. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
25. Genus of American of east Asian perennial herbs with yellow to orange or red flower rays.
28. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
30. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
32. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
34. Found along western Atlantic coast.
36. City in eastern Belgium.
39. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
42. Showing extreme cupidity.
43. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
44. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
45. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
46. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
48. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
50. A bachelor's degree in science.
53. A North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap.
56. Being one more than forty.
57. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
60. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
61. Region of western Asia Minor colonized by Ancient Greeks.
63. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
64. A diacritical mark (u-curved) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound.
65. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
66. Ctenophores having two long pinnate tentacles.
68. Again but in a new or different way.
69. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
70. A Russian river.
72. The Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life.
73. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
77. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
80. Pertaining to the tiny air sacs of the lungs.
86. A bed where seedlings are grown before transplanting.
88. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
89. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
90. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
92. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
93. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
94. An associate degree in applied science.
95. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
96. Type genus of the Anatidae.
97. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).

DOWN

1. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
2. Using the voice.
3. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
4. Water frozen in the solid state.
5. Of or relating to the wrist.
6. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
7. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. Having columns at one or both ends but not along the sides.
9. Any plant disease in which the central part of a plant rots (especially in trees).
10. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
11. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
12. The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century.
13. A mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high).
14. A person who makes use of a thing.
15. Cause to go somewhere.
21. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. Conforming to truth.
29. A kind of person.
31. (Japanese) Rice (with raw fish) wrapped in seaweed.
33. A member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior.
35. English actor who was the first to play the leading role in several of Shakespeare's tragedies (1567-1619).
37. Weave together into a fabric or design.
38. English biologist noted for studies of the molecular structure of blood components (born in 1917).
40. Perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area.
41. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
47. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
49. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
51. A bar of sand.
52. (Scottish folklore) Water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders.
54. A three-year law degree.
55. (historically) A member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire.
58. (Scotland) A landowner.
59. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
62. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
67. Important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop.
71. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
74. A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War.
75. Any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers.
76. A genus of Pyralidae.
77. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
78. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
79. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
81. A Russian river.
82. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
83. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
84. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
85. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
87. Either extremity of something that has length.
91. In operation or operational.

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