Crossword Puzzle Number 5563 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Serving as or forming a base.
5. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
9. The capital of Western Samoa.
13. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
16. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
17. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
18. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
19. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
20. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
21. The yield from plants in a single growing season.
22. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
23. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. Exultantly proud and joyful.
27. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
28. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
30. A primeval personification of air and breath.
32. Not only so, but.
35. A group of related languages spoken in a valley of southern Ethiopia.
37. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
41. Type genus of the Alcedinidae.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. (Babylonian and Assyrian) Goddess of love and fertility and war.
44. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine.
45. The last few hours before death.
49. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
50. Political propaganda (especially Communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema.
52. (in Scotland) A child.
54. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
55. Sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors.
56. A town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron.
58. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
60. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
61. A flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces.
62. A metal post supporting an outdoor lamp (such as a streetlight).
65. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
67. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
69. A European river.
70. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
73. Uncontrollably noisy.
76. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
81. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
82. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
83. Official routes of communication.
85. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
89. Inflammation of the female pelvic organs (especially the Fallopian tubes) caused by infection by any of several microorganisms (chiefly gonococci and chlamydia).
91. Away from the mouth or oral region.
93. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
94. Perfume esp. with a censer.
95. Any competition.
97. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
98. An affirmative.
99. A strong emotion.
100. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
101. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
102. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.

DOWN

1. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
2. On or toward the lee.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. An ache localized in the middle or inner ear.
5. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
6. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
7. Greek god of light.
8. A monoamine neurotransmitter found in the brain and essential for the normal functioning of the central nervous system.
9. American novelist (1909-1955).
10. A genus of Ploceidae.
11. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
12. Aimlessly drifting.
13. The closing section of a musical composition.
14. The act of scanning.
15. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
26. The part of the leg between the hip and the knee.
28. A port city in western South Korea on the Yellow Sea.
29. Any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur gray above and white below with well-furred tails and large ears.
31. A disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin).
33. Refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style.
34. A genus of sea anemone common in rock pools.
36. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
38. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
39. Small soft-furred South and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails.
40. A superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation.
46. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
47. Fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh.
48. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
51. Genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers.
53. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
57. 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.
59. indicate by signs.
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
64. A Bantu language spoken in the Kenyan coastal areas of East Africa.
66. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
68. A public announcement (in church) of a proposed marriage.
71. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
72. Coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood.
74. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
75. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
77. The amount a salary is increased.
78. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
79. A large and imposing house.
80. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
84. A special way of doing something.
86. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
87. An agenda of things to do.
88. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
90. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
92. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
96. A public promotion of some product or service.

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