Crossword Puzzle Number 5452 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter.
9. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
16. Temporary military shelter.
17. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
18. A releasing factor that accelerates the secretion of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary body.
19. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
20. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
22. A long slender cigar.
25. Formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy.
27. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
28. A person who has been evacuated from a dangerous place.
30. One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada.
32. A member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila.
34. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
35. Rate of revolution of a motor.
36. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
39. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
41. A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
49. A second-rate prize fighter.
51. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
53. The brightest star in Orion.
54. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
55. Suggestive of the supernatural.
56. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
57. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
58. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
61. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
63. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
64. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
66. Yearling heifer or bullock.
68. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
70. Filled with a great quantity.
71. British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue transplants and discovered that the rejection of grafts was an immune response (1915-1987).
74. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
76. Inflammation of the nose and throat with increased production of mucus.
82. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
84. Of superior grade.
86. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
87. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
88. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
91. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
93. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
94. Top part of an apron.
96. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
98. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
99. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
100. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
101. A particular environment or walk of life.
102. Catch sight of.
103. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

DOWN

1. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
2. An ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile.
3. A genus of Sterninae.
4. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
5. An ancient jar with two handles and a narrow neck.
6. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
7. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
8. The act of catching an object with the hands.
9. How long something has existed.
10. Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.
11. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
12. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
13. A city of central Russia south of Moscow.
14. Ulcerated chilblain on the heel.
15. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
21. Ancient Greek or Roman galley or warship having three tiers of oars on each side.
23. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
24. A permanent council of the United Nations.
26. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
29. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
31. Be a signal for or a symptom of.
33. Of or relating to apnea.
37. The rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written).
38. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis.
40. Confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy.
42. United States diplomat who was instrumental in opening Japan to foreign trade (1804-1878).
43. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
44. God of death.
47. A lizard of the family Agamidae.
48. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. (archaic) Of persons.
59. Kauri pine.
60. A man who is engaged to be married.
62. A tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor).
65. The property of being both obvious and offensive.
67. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
69. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
72. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
73. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
75. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
77. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
78. One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills.
79. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
80. Any oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents.
81. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
83. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
84. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
85. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
89. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
90. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
92. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
95. A bachelor's degree in religion.
97. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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