Crossword Puzzle Number 5500 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
4. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
9. (informal) Exceptionally good.
13. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
16. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
17. (law) A formal objection to an opponent's pleadings.
18. A very attractive or seductive looking woman.
19. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
20. A human limb.
21. A drama set to music.
22. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
23. The act of using.
24. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. Narrow French stick loaf.
28. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
31. Common Indian weaverbird.
37. Divulge information or secrets.
40. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
43. A small fragment.
45. Covered with scabs.
47. Not out.
48. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
49. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
51. United States film maker (1897-1991).
53. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
55. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
58. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
59. The longest division of geological time.
60. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
62. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
63. Used of a single unit or thing.
64. An enclosed space in which the air pressure is higher than outside.
67. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
69. A globular water bottle used in Asia.
70. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
72. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
74. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
75. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
76. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
78. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
80. A field of cultivated and mowed grass.
83. Large tree of Trinidad and Guyana having odd-pinnate leaves and violet-scented axillary racemes of yellow flowers and long smooth pods.
86. The basic unit of money in Finland.
89. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
93. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
94. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
95. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
97. Swiss naturalist who was one of the founders of modern zoology (1516-1565).
100. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
101. Used especially of fruits.
103. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
104. Extremely pleasing.
105. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
106. The capital and largest city of South Korea.
107. The basic unit of money in China.
108. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Jordan's port.
2. Wild and menacing.
3. Young sheep.
4. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
5. The month following August and preceding October.
6. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
7. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
8. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
9. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
10. Disparaging terms for small people.
11. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
12. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
13. Argentinian cariama.
14. An open jar of glass or porcelain used as an ornament or to hold flowers.
15. Advanced in years.
25. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
27. Not identified with a band.
29. An informal conversation.
32. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
33. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
34. Make amends for.
35. Relating to or used in making cabinets.
36. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
38. 16 ounces.
39. Of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess.
41. A genus of Thraupidae.
42. A city in southern California (southeast of Los Angeles).
44. A beta-adrenergic blocking agent (trade name Corgard) that is used to treat hypertension and angina.
46. English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924).
50. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
52. A cloth having a crisscross design.
54. God of war and sky.
56. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
57. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
61. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
65. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. A kind of literary or artistic work.
71. Water buffalo of the Philippines.
72. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
73. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
77. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
79. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
81. United States writer and poet (1905-1989).
82. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
84. Glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust.
85. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
87. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
88. Jordan's port.
90. A Russian river.
91. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
92. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
96. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
98. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
99. A master's degree in fine arts.
102. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.

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