Crossword Puzzle Number 5688 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
5. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
9. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
13. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
16. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
17. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
18. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
19. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
21. Someone who drives racing cars at high speeds.
24. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
25. A port city in southwestern Iran.
28. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
30. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
31. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
34. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
36. The 18th letter of the Greek alphabet.
40. Any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh.
44. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
45. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
46. Lower in esteem.
49. Interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by dint of'.
50. Lacking companions or companionship.
52. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
54. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
55. The basic unit of money in Paraguay.
57. A person who acts and gets things done.
59. Being divided or separated.
61. The first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac.
62. A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top.
63. The basic unit of money in Lesotho.
64. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
65. A large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals.
71. A joint of a finger when the fist is closed.
73. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
75. State in northeastern India.
77. How long something has existed.
78. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
80. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
83. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
87. United States heavyweight boxing champion (1866-1933).
89. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
91. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
92. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
93. A set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents.
95. Used of the language of the deaf.
96. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
97. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
98. South African term for `boss'.
99. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
100. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).

DOWN

1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
5. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
6. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
7. Being one more than three.
8. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
9. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
10. An earth color containing ferric oxides.
11. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
12. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
13. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
14. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
15. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. Too numerous to be counted.
26. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
27. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
29. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
32. A forbidding stronghold.
33. Involving two dimensions.
35. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
37. A traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible.
38. A diuretic (trade name Osmitrol) used to promote the excretion of urine.
39. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
41. Direct or control.
42. United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909).
43. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
47. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
48. Sharp piercing cry.
51. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
53. An honorary degree in science.
56. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
58. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
60. An alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral.
66. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
67. An appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips.
68. North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes.
69. A genus of Sterninae.
70. A genus of Bothidae.
72. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
74. A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee.
75. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
76. Grind together, of teeth.
79. In bed.
81. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
82. Sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system.
84. A city in northern India.
85. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
86. English essayist (1775-1834).
88. A bachelor's degree in theology.
90. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
94. Informal terms for a mother.
95. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.

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