Crossword Puzzle Number 5196 (Large Grid)

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1. The act of catching an object with the hands.
5. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
9. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
13. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
16. (aeronautical) Pertaining to the tail section of a plane.
17. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
18. A historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain.
19. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
20. A city in northern India.
21. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
23. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
24. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
25. A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war.
27. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
30. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
32. A relation that provides the foundation for something.
35. English pathologist who discovered the cause of trichinosis (1814-1899).
37. Black tropical American cuckoo.
39. Plaything consisting of a container filled with toys and candy.
42. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
43. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
46. Occurring at or forming an end or termination.
47. An audiotape recording of sound.
49. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
51. A master's degree in religion.
52. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
54. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
56. Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious.
58. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
61. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
64. A cigar made with light-colored tobacco.
65. Administer an oil or ointment to.
66. 1 species.
67. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
68. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
70. A public promotion of some product or service.
73. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
74. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
78. A person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow.
81. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
83. A decree that prohibits something.
85. The specified day of the month.
86. Common Indian weaverbird.
88. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
90. Soft suede glove leather from goatskin.
93. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
97. An enclosed space.
98. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
99. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
101. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
102. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
103. Type genus of the Ranidae.
104. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
105. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.

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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. Having no weak points.
4. A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks in 479 BC.
5. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
6. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
7. Of or relating to a canton.
8. Any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira.
9. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
10. The brightest star in Cygnus.
11. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
12. Used of a single unit or thing.
13. A human limb.
14. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
15. (informal) Exceptionally good.
22. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
26. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.
28. The least possible.
31. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
33. (Norse mythology) Wife of Thor and guardian of the home.
34. A bag filled with sand.
36. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
38. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
40. A watercourse that carries water away from a mill or water wheel or turbine.
41. Pertaining to the tiny air sacs of the lungs.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
48. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
50. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
53. A loose cloak with a hood.
55. A light touch or stroke.
57. One millionth of a gram.
59. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
60. A Mid-Atlantic state.
62. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
63. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
69. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
70. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
71. An informal term for a father.
72. Abnormal position of a part or organ (especially at the time of birth).
73. A human limb.
75. Informal terms for a mother.
76. In bed.
77. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
79. Avatar of Vishnu.
80. (Greek mythology) A mythical Trojan who was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War.
82. American dwarf fan palms.
84. Jordan's port.
87. Noisy talk.
89. A small cake leavened with yeast.
91. United States feminist who was active in the women's suffrage movement (1819-1910).
92. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
94. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
95. (British) Your grandmother.
96. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
100. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.

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