Crossword Puzzle Number 5565 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An enclosed space.
4. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
9. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
13. The bill in a restaurant.
16. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
17. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
18. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
19. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
20. The longest division of geological time.
21. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
23. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
24. (classical mythology) A hero noted for his strength.
26. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
28. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
30. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
31. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
32. A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu.
34. A state in New England.
35. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
37. Unwisely talking too much.
40. A heavy precious metallic element.
42. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
44. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
47. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
48. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
50. Before noon.
51. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
54. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
55. Made tough by habitual exposure.
57. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
59. A Mid-Atlantic state.
60. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
61. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
62. Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder.
65. Someone unable to adapt to their circumstances.
67. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
68. An island of Hawaii northwest of Oahu.
70. Any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape.
72. Noisy talk.
74. A notable achievement.
75. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
76. Type genus of the Dipodidae.
79. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi.
84. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
86. Relating to or resembling or functioning like a trachea.
88. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
92. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
94. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
96. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
97. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
98. The brightest star in Cygnus.
99. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
100. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
101. Seed of a pea plant.
102. Liquor and water with sugar and lemon or lime juice.
103. The probability of a specified outcome.
104. A light touch or stroke.

DOWN

1. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
2. Garlic mayonnaise.
3. A high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line.
4. With no effort to conceal.
5. Far away from home or one's usual surroundings.
6. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
7. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
8. Numbered or proceeding by tens.
9. A card game for 2 players.
10. A genus of Ploceidae.
11. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
12. Tropical American trees.
13. An oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue.
14. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
15. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
25. (Babylonian and Assyrian) Goddess of love and fertility and war.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. King of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410).
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
36. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
38. Any of several plants of the genus Brodiaea having basal grasslike leaves and globose flower heads on leafless stems resembling those of genus Allium.
39. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
41. Of or relating to tension.
43. Taken before a meal as an appetizer.
45. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
46. Quietly in concealment.
49. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
52. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
53. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
56. An audiotape recording of sound.
58. Distant in either space or time.
63. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
64. Used in combination.
66. Having lost freshness or brilliance of color.
69. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
71. The basic unit of money in Paraguay.
72. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
73. United States physicist and molecular biologist who helped develop the first atom bomb and later opposed the use of all nuclear weapons (1898-1964).
74. Tropical American trees.
77. Relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land.
78. The male reproductive organ of a flower.
80. 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.
81. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
82. Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids.
83. Torn down and broken up.
85. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
86. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
87. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
89. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
90. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
91. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
93. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
95. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.

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