Crossword Puzzle Number 5685 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
4. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
9. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
13. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. A county in southwestern England.
18. The British system of withholding tax.
19. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
20. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
22. Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet.
25. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
26. Being or relating to or like a chimera.
27. Noisy talk.
28. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
30. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
32. A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink.
36. How long something has existed.
38. Preceding all others in time or space or degree.
42. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
47. Made of or resembling lace.
48. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
49. French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791).
51. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
52. Having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity.
54. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
55. A city in the northern panhandle of Texas.
57. Fiddler crabs.
58. Used of a single unit or thing.
59. Highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era.
60. Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey.
62. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
64. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
65. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
69. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
71. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
73. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
76. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
78. A motley assortment of things.
80. (informal) Exceptionally good.
83. A white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2).
85. (Phoenician and Philistine) God of agriculture and the earth.
89. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
92. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
94. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
95. (Babylonian) The sky god.
96. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
98. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
99. A notable achievement.
100. The cry made by sheep.
101. A small cake leavened with yeast.
102. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
103. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
3. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
4. A doctor's degree in optometry.
5. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
6. A genus of Indriidae.
7. A member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona.
8. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
9. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
10. A bottle with a stopper.
11. City in Sudan.
12. 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.
13. God of death.
14. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
15. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
21. French painter (1684-1721).
23. Spread or daub over.
24. Relating to or written in the alphabet used for writing Slavic languages.
31. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
33. A member of a North American Indian people of the Gila river valley in Arizona.
34. Not having a coating.
35. Make crunching noises.
37. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
39. A railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution.
40. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
41. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Tyrol or its people.
43. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
44. A genus of Mustelidae.
45. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
46. A member of the Siouan people of the Arkansas river valley in Arkansas.
50. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
53. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
56. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
61. Sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food.
63. Nearest in space or position.
66. An informal term for a father.
67. By bad luck.
68. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
70. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
71. God of death.
72. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
74. Having a melody (as distinguished from recitative).
75. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
77. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
79. A republic on the west coast of Africa.
80. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
81. Type genus of the Ranidae.
82. Largest known toad species.
84. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
86. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
87. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
88. A quantity of no importance.
90. Tag the base runner to get him out.
91. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
93. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
97. A Russian river.

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