Crossword Puzzle Number 5503 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A city in northwestern Syria.
5. The tissue forming the hard outer layer of e.g. a fruit.
9. Knock unconscious or senseless.
13. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
16. The elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length.
17. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
18. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
19. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
20. Past due.
21. (law) A group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen).
23. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
24. Family based on male descent.
25. Assailed with contemptuous language.
27. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
29. Any tree of the genus Genipa bearing yellow flowers and edible fruit with a thick rind.
30. American physicist who contributed to the theory of the interaction of photons and electrons (1918-1988).
34. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
38. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
39. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
40. Old World herbs and subshrubs.
44. A small piece of cloth.
47. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
48. Roman scholar (116-27 BC).
49. A small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid.
51. French painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883).
53. Of or relating to bone marrow.
54. The amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full.
56. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
58. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
59. A motley assortment of things.
60. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
61. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
63. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
64. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
67. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
68. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
69. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
70. Of or relating to the science of acoustics.
75. European shad.
76. An oral drug (trade name Mevacor) to reduce blood cholesterol levels.
81. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
84. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
85. Jordan's port.
87. The capital of Western Samoa.
89. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
90. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
91. A city in Indonesia.
92. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
93. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
94. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
95. Appeal or request earnestly.
96. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
97. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

DOWN

1. Highly excited.
2. Actually being performed (or--for the audience--present) at the time of viewing.
3. In equal amounts or shares.
4. An actor's portrayal of someone in a play.
5. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
6. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
7. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
8. Mother goddess.
9. Genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers.
10. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
11. Member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence.
12. Used of a single unit or thing.
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
15. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
22. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
26. Of or relating to or near the sacrum.
28. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
31. A substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I').
32. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
33. Moving toward a position farther from the front.
35. In a foreign country.
36. An island republic in the west central Pacific just south of the equator.
37. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine).
41. A newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor).
42. Wood of a sumac.
43. Periodic maintenance on a car or machine.
45. Italian histologist noted for work on the structure of the nervous system and for his discovery of Golgi bodies (1844-1926).
46. The ending of a series or sequence.
50. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
52. A three-tone Chadic language.
55. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
57. God of death.
62. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
65. A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way.
66. 1 species.
67. Used of a single unit or thing.
71. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
72. Of or relating to a dialect of Sotho or the Bantu people who speak it.
73. A genus of Indriidae.
74. Not very intelligent or interested in culture.
75. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
77. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
78. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
79. A baton used by a magician or water diviner.
80. Informal terms for a meal.
81. Half the width of an em.
82. In bed.
83. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
86. The cry made by sheep.
88. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.

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