Crossword Puzzle Number 5369 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
4. Type genus of the Majidae.
8. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
12. Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves.
16. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
17. By bad luck.
18. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
19. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. A small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo.
22. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
23. The organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract.
24. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
26. The face or front of a building.
29. A Spanish male Gypsy.
30. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
31. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
34. Any plant that crowds out cultivated plants.
36. The 3rd planet from the sun.
39. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
42. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
44. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
47. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
50. A city in south central Belgium situated on a promontory between the Meuse River and the Sambre River.
53. Antiquity that as survived from the distant past.
56. (literary) Spirited horse for state or war.
57. With rapid movements.
58. A republic in eastern Africa.
60. Language of the people of Cebu in the Philippines.
62. Offering fun and gaiety.
64. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
65. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
66. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
70. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
72. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
73. Struck with especially the open hand.
75. French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920).
78. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
80. French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791).
83. The congenital absence of pigmentation in the eyes and skin and hair.
87. A commodity that enters competition with established merchandise.
89. The cry made by sheep.
90. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
91. The place where some action occurs.
93. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
94. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
95. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
96. (used to introduce a logical conclusion) From that fact or reason or as a result.
97. A small cake leavened with yeast.
98. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.

DOWN

1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
3. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
4. A crime syndicate in the United States.
5. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
6. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
7. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
8. A Loloish language.
9. Feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight.
10. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
11. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
12. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
13. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
14. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
15. Wild goose having white adult plumage.
25. How long something has existed.
27. A barn for cows.
28. Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing.
32. Bell magpies.
33. A state in New England.
35. The state of owing money.
37. A person loved by another person.
38. Used of persons.
40. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
41. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
45. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn.
46. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
48. Dutch physicist who first formulated the wave theory of light (1629-1695).
49. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
51. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
52. A medium for oil-paints.
54. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
55. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
61. The event of being born.
63. Small genus of tropical American trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and flat straight pods.
67. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
68. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
69. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
70. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
71. Slightly open.
74. 1 species.
76. Cause to be embarrassed.
77. Of or related to or derived from oats.
79. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
80. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
81. A message received and understood that reduces the recipient's uncertainty.
82. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
84. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
85. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
86. Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916).
88. Liquid excretory product.
92. A state in southeastern United States.

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