Crossword Puzzle Number 5158 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
4. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
9. A vigorous blow.
13. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. 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.
18. (prefix) Within.
19. An accidental happening.
20. Examine by palpation for medical purposes.
22. (used especially of meats) Preserved in salt.
24. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
25. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
26. Textual matter that is added onto a publication.
29. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
30. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
31. Any plant of the genus Ammobium having yellow flowers and silvery foliage.
33. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
35. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. The highest level or degree attainable.
45. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
46. A Mid-Atlantic state.
48. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
50. A port city in southwestern Iran.
54. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
55. A genus of Indriidae.
57. Type genus of the Caricaceae.
58. A bowl-shaped vessel.
59. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
60. Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy.
62. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
64. Ground snakes.
66. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
67. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
68. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
70. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
71. Of or relating to or characteristic of Yemen or its inhabitants.
75. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
78. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
79. Commonly used diuretic (trade name Lasix) used to treat hypertension and edema.
83. An ache localized in the middle or inner ear.
86. Separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument.
89. Belief in a kind of sorcery that originated in Africa and is practiced in the West Indies.
90. An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration.
91. Any cycad of the genus Dioon.
92. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
94. 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.
95. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
96. United States comedian.
97. Using speech rather than writing.
98. The force of workers available.

DOWN

1. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
2. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
3. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
4. The cry made by sheep.
5. Of or pertaining to or written in Altaic.
6. English monk and scholar (672-735).
7. Before noon.
8. Having a dusty purplish pink color.
9. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
10. (Babylonian) Consort of Anu.
11. Having a stem or stems or having a stem as specified.
12. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
13. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
14. Smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed.
15. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
21. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
23. An associate degree in nursing.
27. Dearly loved.
28. Of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess.
32. A Russian river.
34. Dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority.
37. Capital of Armenia.
38. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
39. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
40. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
42. A person who is being chased.
43. The small projection of a mammary gland.
44. (classical mythology) The hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals.
47. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
49. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Bronze Age culture of Crete.
51. South African term for `boss'.
52. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
53. Placed crosswise.
56. Ground snakes.
61. A battle during the American Revolutionary War (1777).
63. A shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep.
64. English monk and scholar (672-735).
65. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
69. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
72. Start abruptly.
73. The basic unit of length adopted under the System International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards).
74. Used chiefly as a direction or description in music.
76. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
77. Discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.
80. On, to, or at the top.
81. A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services.
82. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
84. A small island.
85. A primeval personification of air and breath.
87. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
88. Gone by.
93. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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