Crossword Puzzle Number 5672 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. Acclaimed actress of stage and screen (born in 1900).
9. Type genus of the Anatidae.
13. An operating system that is on a disk.
16. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
17. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
18. Being nothing more than specified.
19. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
20. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
21. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
22. The compass point that is one point north of northwest.
23. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. Resembling a rhombus.
28. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
29. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
30. A fraudulent business scheme.
32. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
34. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
38. A state in New England.
39. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
43. American filmmaker and comic actor (1935- ).
44. An oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments.
47. A fit of shivering.
48. German bacteriologist who described a disease now known as Reiter's syndrome and who identified the spirochete that causes syphilis in humans (1881-1969).
50. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
51. 1/1000 gram.
52. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
53. An automaton that resembles a human being.
57. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
59. A genus of Nymphalidae.
61. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
63. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
64. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
65. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
66. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
67. Suitable for use as food.
69. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
71. The property of something spacious and abounding in fresh air.
73. The froth produced by soaps or detergents.
74. United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927).
76. One who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature.
78. (informal) Of the highest quality.
81. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
82. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
84. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
88. Put into a rage.
92. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
94. Soaked with moisture.
96. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
97. A slender double-reed instrument.
98. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
100. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
102. Being one more than two.
103. Occurring widely (as to many people).
104. (Norse mythology) The primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world.
105. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
106. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.

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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
4. The act of hopping (jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)).
5. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
6. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
7. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
8. Adopted in order to deceive.
9. Of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion.
10. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
11. 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).
12. A general conscious awareness.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
25. Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
31. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
33. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
35. Or family Polypodiaceae.
36. Of or relating to a climate.
37. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
40. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
41. German philologist noted for his studies of the relation between language and culture (1767-1835).
42. A style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law.
45. Not divisible by two.
46. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
49. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
54. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
55. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
56. German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913).
58. Spread or diffuse through.
60. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
62. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
68. Towards the shore from the water.
70. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
71. The act of hopping (jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)).
72. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
75. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
77. A bicycle with two sets of pedals and two seats.
79. Very dark black.
80. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
83. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
85. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
86. A blind god.
87. God of fire.
88. A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge.
89. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
90. A quantity that is added.
91. English essayist (1775-1834).
93. Wild and domestic cattle.
95. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
99. Before noon.
101. Informal terms for a mother.

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