Crossword Puzzle Number 5488 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
9. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
13. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
16. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
17. A saying that widely accepted on its own merits.
18. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
19. A resource.
20. Leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice.
22. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
24. Be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc..
26. (informal usage) A general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction.
27. A Loloish language.
29. United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United states films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954).
30. An edible tuber native to South America.
32. American novelist (1909-1955).
34. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
35. Someone who cuts and delivers ice.
37. Mother goddess.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
46. Small Old and New World herons.
47. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
48. Wasting time.
51. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
52. An informal term for a father.
53. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
55. Marked by a rhythmical cadence.
58. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
60. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
62. A city in northeastern France in Lorraine.
63. United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944).
64. Any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent.
68. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
69. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
72. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
73. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
74. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
76. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
79. One or some or every or all without specification.
80. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
81. Measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation.
82. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
84. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
89. A major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts.
94. Of or relating to the spleen.
95. Become of.
97. Set down according to a plan.
98. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
99. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
101. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
102. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
103. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
104. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
105. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
106. Any plant that crowds out cultivated plants.

DOWN

1. A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge.
2. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
3. An elaborate and systematic plan of action.
4. A planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky.
5. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
6. Related to or having filaments especially across a field of view.
7. (of music) Characteristic of rural life.
8. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
9. An accountant certified by the state.
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
12. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
14. Having the taste of wine.
15. The probability of a specified outcome.
21. A genus of Paridae.
23. A reformed prostitute.
25. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
28. Being ten more than sixty.
31. A town in north central Oklahoma.
33. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
36. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
38. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
40. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
41. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
42. A monastery for lamas.
44. A festival featuring African-American culture.
45. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
49. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
50. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
54. Used especially of fruits.
56. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
57. The muscular back part of the shank.
59. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
61. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
65. Of or relating to or venerating the Virgin Mary.
66. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
67. An enclosed space.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. New Guinea echidnas.
72. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
75. (botany) Of some seeds.
77. Canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained.
78. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
83. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
84. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
85. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
86. A condition requiring relief.
87. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
88. In bed.
89. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
90. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
91. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
92. Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance.
93. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
96. Vietnamese New Year.
100. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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