Crossword Puzzle Number 5637 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
4. Transient cessation of respiration.
9. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
13. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
18. A republic in western South America.
19. A local computer network for communication between computers.
20. A region in central Italy.
22. Read anew.
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
25. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
26. English monk and scholar (672-735).
27. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
29. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
31. Humorously sarcastic or mocking.
34. Capable of being acted.
37. A naturally occuring glyceride of oleic acid that is found in fats and oils.
39. (British slang) Cafe.
42. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
44. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
49. Affected manners intended to impress others.
50. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
54. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
55. An uproarious party.
58. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
60. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
62. A drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure.
64. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
66. A large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm.
68. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
69. Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame.
71. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
72. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
73. An informal term for a father.
75. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
76. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
78. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
79. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
81. Of a speech expressing leave-taking.
84. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
86. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
88. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
90. The compass point that is one point north of northwest.
91. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
92. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
94. Incapable of or resistant to bending.
98. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
99. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
100. Clean or orderly.
101. A unit of pressure.
102. An informal term for a father.
103. (used informally) Very small.
104. Not in action or at work.
105. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.

DOWN

1. Fallow deer.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
4. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
5. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
6. Speak in a nasal voice.
7. Half the width of an em.
8. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
9. The month following March and preceding May.
10. A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
13. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high).
14. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
15. Belonging to some prior time.
21. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
23. At or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time.
28. Of or concerning the face.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. Changed to a yellowish color by age.
33. An associate degree in nursing.
35. Green turtles.
36. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
38. The eighth month of the civil year.
40. United States writer remembered for his novels (1904-1979).
41. Of or relating to a fisheye lens.
43. Something with a round shape like a flat circular plate.
46. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
48. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
51. A harsh noise made by scraping.
52. Australian clover fern.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
56. A pendent spear of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water.
57. An argument opposed to a proposal.
59. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
61. A loud harsh or strident noise.
63. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
65. Driven insane.
67. (Welsh) Lord of Annwfn (the other world.
70. Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
71. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
74. A final climactic stage.
77. A discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal.
80. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
82. The sacred city of Lamaism.
83. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
85. A small cake leavened with yeast.
87. Beside one another in a row or rank.
88. With no effort to conceal.
89. Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910).
93. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
95. A strong emotion.
96. Black tropical American cuckoo.
97. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.

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