Crossword Puzzle Number 5431 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
5. (football) Of advancing the ball by throwing it.
9. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
13. British informal term.
16. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
17. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
18. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
19. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
20. Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward.
21. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
22. A set of two similar things considered as a unit.
23. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
24. United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921).
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. Army unit smaller than a division.
29. A fraudulent business scheme.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. A Greek island west of Greece.
35. A freshwater pond with fish.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
42. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
44. Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people).
45. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
47. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
49. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
55. A B vitamin that is essential for metabolism of amino acids and starch.
57. By bad luck.
58. Chief port and economic center of Nigeria.
59. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
61. Unable to move or resist motion.
62. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
63. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
64. A person who sins (without repenting).
65. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
67. Someone who consumes food for nourishment.
72. An associate degree in nursing.
73. An inhabitant of Lappland.
75. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
79. The act of scanning.
84. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
85. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
87. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
89. An account describing incidents or events.
90. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
91. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
92. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
93. Very dark black.
94. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
95. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
96. A city in northwestern Syria.
97. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.

DOWN

1. An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.
2. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
3. Pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.
4. Of or relating to or like or in the manner of the Roman Seneca.
5. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
6. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
7. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
8. Highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried.
9. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
11. The habitation of wild animals.
12. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
13. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
15. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
25. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
28. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
30. A master's degree in fine arts.
31. Relating to or associated with heat.
34. An Australian state on the island of Tasmania.
36. A member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers.
37. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
38. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
39. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
40. (of meat) Cooked by dry heat in an oven.
43. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
46. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
48. (combining form) Acting or functioning as a regent or ruler.
50. A heavy creamy-colored paper resembling parchment.
53. A native or inhabitant of Borneo.
54. Stern foremost or backward.
56. Relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco.
60. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
66. After the expected or usual time.
67. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
68. Pertaining to or near the sun.
69. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.
70. A penicillinase-resistant form of penicillin (trade name Nafcil) used (usually in the form of its sodium salt) to treat infections caused by penicillin-resistant strains of staphylococci.
71. A person forced to flee from home or country.
74. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
75. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
76. Jordan's port.
77. Any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh.
78. A particular environment or walk of life.
80. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
81. An elaborate song for solo voice.
82. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
83. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
86. Of southern Europe.
87. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
88. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
89. An associate degree in nursing.

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