Crossword Puzzle Number 5693 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. A beckoning gesture.
9. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
13. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
16. Capital and largest city of Italy.
17. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
18. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
19. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
20. (of something seen or heard) Clearly defined.
22. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
25. Presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible.
27. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
30. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
32. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
34. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
37. A festival featuring African-American culture.
40. Make less active or intense.
41. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
45. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
46. Minor or subordinate.
47. Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17).
49. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
50. Brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes.
52. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
53. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
56. An accidental happening.
57. Light teasing repartee.
59. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
62. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
65. (botany) A covering that resembles scales or bran that covers some plant parts.
67. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
68. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
69. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
70. Swiss writer (born in Germany) whose novels and poems express his interests in Eastern spiritual values (1877-1962).
71. Type genus of the Amiidae.
73. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
75. Of or relating to the Iberian peninsula or its inhabitants.
77. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
81. Russian goldsmith noted for creating a series of jeweled and enameled Easter eggs for European royalty (1846-1920).
84. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
87. A branch of the Tai languages.
88. Rig used in drilling for oil or gas.
92. A master's degree in business.
93. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
94. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
96. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
98. Tag the base runner to get him out.
99. Towards the side away from the wind.
100. Any plant of the genus Erica.
101. A doctor's degree in music.
102. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
2. Meat from a domestic hog or pig.
3. Expel, as of gases and odors.
4. Someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement.
5. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
6. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
7. A binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element.
8. African mahogany trees.
9. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
10. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
11. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
12. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
13. Austrian zoologist who studied the behavior of birds and emphasized the importance of innate as opposed to learned behaviors (1903-1989).
14. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
15. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
21. Analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence).
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. A male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign).
26. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
28. Pan with a convex bottom.
29. Type genus of the Blattidae.
31. The cry made by sheep.
33. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
35. Acting according to certain accepted standards.
36. Extremely hungry.
38. The first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac.
39. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
42. A historical region of Croatia on the Adriatic Sea.
43. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
44. Grave or even gloomy in character.
48. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
51. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
54. Highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried.
55. Half the width of an em.
58. Nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing.
60. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
61. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
63. A shape that spreads outward.
64. Not only so, but.
66. Of or relating to or characterized by fever.
67. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
72. Type genus of the Anatidae.
74. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
76. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
78. A genus of Lamnidae.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. Jordan's port.
82. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
83. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
85. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
86. Joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces.
89. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
90. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
91. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
95. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
96. A Mid-Atlantic state.
97. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.

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