Crossword Puzzle Number 5255 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. A thin strip (wood or metal).
12. (football) Of advancing the ball by throwing it.
16. The month following March and preceding May.
17. United States feminist (1885-1977).
18. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
19. Very dark black.
20. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
21. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
22. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
23. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
24. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
26. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
28. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
30. (rock music) A loud steady beat.
33. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
35. A sails-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere near Carina.
37. A net or mesh foundation for lace.
39. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
44. A person trained to compete in sports.
46. (British) Your grandmother.
50. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
51. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
53. A small spineless globe-shaped cactus.
55. Long and light rowing boat.
57. A vasodilator (trade name Loniten) used to treat severe hypertension.
59. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
60. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
62. Tired of the world.
64. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
65. An attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye.
68. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
70. Chinch bugs.
72. Very light colored.
73. Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I.
75. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
77. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
80. A person who jumps from a plane and performs various gymnastic maneuvers before pulling the parachute cord.
84. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
85. The largest and southernmost island in the Marianas.
88. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
89. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
90. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
91. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
94. Being one more than two.
95. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
96. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
97. The face of a timepiece.
98. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.

DOWN

1. A member of the British order of honor.
2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
3. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
4. Plants having flowers in umbels.
5. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
6. Hardy evergreen dioecious shrubs and small trees from Japan.
7. A strong flame that burns brightly.
8. A single splash.
9. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves.
10. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
12. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
13. A port city in southwestern Iran.
14. Very large white gannet with black wing tips.
15. Expressive of contempt.
25. English nurse who remained in Brussels after the German occupation in order to help Allied prisoners escape.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
31. An awkward stupid person.
32. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
34. A merchant who sells goods at retail.
36. A city of northern Morocco at the west end of the Strait of Gibraltar.
38. (Japanese) A form of chess played on a board of 81 squares.
40. Based on or exemplifying anagoge.
41. A member of a Kannada-speaking group of people living chiefly in Kanara in southern India.
42. Comb with a heckle.
43. An anticonvulsant drug (trade names Emeside and Zarontin) used to treat petit mal epilepsy.
45. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
47. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
48. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
49. Ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage.
52. Type genus of the Mobulidae.
54. A member of a North American Indian people of central Arizona.
56. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
58. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
61. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
63. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
66. Under a moral obligation to do something.
67. An ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq.
69. 1 species.
70. An associate degree in nursing.
71. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
74. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
76. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
78. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
79. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
81. Characteristic of false pride.
82. Armor plate that protects the chest.
83. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
86. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
87. A resource.
92. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
93. A public promotion of some product or service.

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