Crossword Puzzle Number 5575 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
4. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
9. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
13. Having only superficial plausibility.
16. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
17. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
18. Using speech rather than writing.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
21. A line or route along which something travels or moves.
22. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
23. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
24. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
28. The sixth month of the civil year.
29. Goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology.
30. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
31. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
33. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
34. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
36. A contestant who loses the contest.
43. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
46. Gone by.
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
50. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
52. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
56. A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry).
57. A group of countries in special alliance.
58. Pain in the gums.
60. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
61. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
62. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
63. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
64. Situated in a particular spot or position.
66. Speaking a Slavic language.
68. (biology) Taxonomic group whose members can interbreed.
71. Affect with wonder.
72. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
73. Noisy talk.
75. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
76. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
78. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
80. The lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States.
86. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
90. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
94. Informal terms for a mother.
95. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
97. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
99. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
100. A primeval personification of air and breath.
101. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
102. English monk and scholar (672-735).
103. A light touch or stroke.
104. The square of a body of any size of type.

DOWN

1. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
2. Appeal or request earnestly.
3. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
4. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
5. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
6. (biology) Having or resembling wings.
7. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly.
8. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
9. Small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters.
10. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
11. A warning against certain acts.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
14. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
15. Of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself.
25. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
26. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
27. Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order.
32. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
38. Like or characteristic of or befitting a sister.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. Tasting or smelling of onions or garlic.
42. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
44. A colobus monkey with a reddish brown coat and white silky fringes down both sides of the body.
45. A stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle.
49. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
51. Leather covering the toe of a boot or shoe and reinforcing or decorating it.
53. Dirty and disorderly.
54. God of fire.
55. Having prongs or tines.
59. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
65. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
67. United States jazz singer noted for her complex bebop phrasing and scat singing (1924-1990).
68. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
69. Marked by the reception of pay.
70. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
74. The cry made by sheep.
77. One thousand periods per second.
79. Lower in esteem.
81. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
82. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
83. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
84. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
85. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
86. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
87. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
88. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
89. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
91. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
92. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
93. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
96. A person forced to flee from home or country.
98. Being one hundred more than three hundred.

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