Crossword Puzzle Number 5677 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
4. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
9. Altered from an originally straight condition.
13. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
18. Type genus of the Amiidae.
19. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
20. French physicist who invented polarized light and invented the Fresnel lens (1788-1827).
22. Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574).
24. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
25. (music) The speed at which a composition is to be played.
26. A city in northeastern Ukraine.
28. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
30. A Mid-Atlantic state.
31. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
33. Canadian writer noted for his analyses of the mass media (1911-1980).
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. Monoamine oxidase inhibitor (trade name Nardil) used to treat clinical depression.
42. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
46. Type genus of the Nepidae.
48. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
49. The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
53. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
54. A projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint.
55. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
56. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
58. Deeply moved.
59. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
62. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
64. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
65. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
66. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
67. Any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria.
70. Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers.
73. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
74. (superlative of `near' or `nigh') Most near.
76. Causing great physical or mental suffering.
79. The cry made by sheep.
81. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
84. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
88. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
91. An island of central Hawaii.
92. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
93. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
95. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
97. A cgs unit of work or energy.
98. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.
99. Tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail.
100. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
101. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
102. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
103. A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers).
104. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
105. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.

DOWN

1. Move as if through a sieve.
2. Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage.
3. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
4. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
5. (informal) Of the highest quality.
6. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
7. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
8. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
9. Derive or receive pleasure from.
10. (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.
11. (Hinduism and Buddhism) The beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
15. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
21. Marked by smartness in dress and manners.
23. Of or relating to the former Indo-European people.
27. A person who serves a specified term.
29. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
32. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
34. A deep fissure.
35. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
37. Arm again.
39. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
40. 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.
41. A flowering shrub.
45. French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982).
47. Overly concerned with masculinity and male sexuality.
50. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
51. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
52. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
57. Hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany.
60. Any of numerous pale-colored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs.
61. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
63. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
68. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
69. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
71. Lacking motor coordination.
72. Tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes.
73. (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.
75. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
77. Make lighter or brighter.
78. God of wisdom or prophesy.
80. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
82. English Cavalier poet whose lyric poetry was favored by Charles I (1595-1639).
83. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
85. Very dark black.
86. A quantity of no importance.
87. A substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid.
89. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
90. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
94. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
96. A decree that prohibits something.

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