Crossword Puzzle Number 5529 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
5. Type genus of the Sulidae.
9. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
17. A thrusting blow with a knife.
18. European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body.
19. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
20. An organ in its earliest stage of development.
22. A position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. An oil port in southern Iraq.
27. A detachment used for security or reconnaissance.
29. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
31. The power to entice or attract through personal charm.
32. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
35. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
37. The young of a herring or sprat or similar fish.
40. Characterized by variety.
41. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
43. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
44. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
45. A white trivalent metallic element.
47. A decree that prohibits something.
48. An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram.
50. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
52. Secured or held in place by tape.
55. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
56. The shell of a marine organism.
63. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
64. An impression in a surface (as made by a blow).
65. One who works hard at boring tasks.
68. Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur.
70. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
72. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
73. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
78. Turn pale, as if in fear.
82. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
85. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
86. Soviet statesman (1890-1986).
88. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
90. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
91. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
92. An iconic mental representation.
94. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
95. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
96. Term of address for a man.
97. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
98. Type genus of the Anatidae.
99. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.

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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. A Russian river.
3. A master's degree in library science.
4. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
5. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
6. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
7. A soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative.
8. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
9. A pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene.
10. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
11. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
12. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
13. A public promotion of some product or service.
14. A small cake leavened with yeast.
15. By bad luck.
21. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
23. The father of your father or mother.
24. (electronics) Designating sound transmission from two sources through two channels.
28. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
30. The framework of a bed.
33. Genus of Australasian shrubs and subshrubs having small yellow or purple flowers followed by short triangular pods.
34. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
36. The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
38. Someone who takes more time than necessary.
39. (Judaism) Not conforming to dietary laws.
42. A river in southeastern France.
46. Tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets.
49. All the plant life in a particular region.
51. Leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion.
53. The thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest.
54. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
57. Indonesian statesman who obtained the independence of Indonesia from the Netherlands in 1949 and served as president until ousted by Suharto in a coup d'etat (1901-1970).
58. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
59. In bed.
60. Serving no useful purpose.
62. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
66. Deteriorated by decay or rot.
67. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
69. Of or relating to or obtained from milk (especially sour milk or whey).
70. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
71. A medium (art or business) that disseminates moving pictures.
74. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
75. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
76. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
77. Verbal abuse.
79. The basic unit of money in Lesotho.
80. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
81. Having a feeling of home.
83. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
84. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
87. British informal term.
89. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
93. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.

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