Crossword Puzzle Number 5715 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. Capital and largest city of Italy.
12. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
16. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
17. Divulge information or secrets.
18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
20. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
22. Overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof.
25. The highest level or degree attainable.
27. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
28. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
29. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. Female equine animal.
32. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
36. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
38. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
41. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
45. Being one more than one.
46. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
50. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
51. A strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines).
52. 1/10 gram.
53. Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.
54. Support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete.
56. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
58. The sixth month of the civil year.
59. A strong emotion.
60. The Creator.
63. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
66. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
68. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
70. Being nine more than forty.
71. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
73. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
74. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
75. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
76. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
78. The father of your father or mother.
81. Whiten with Blanco.
83. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
85. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
88. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
89. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
91. The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum.
93. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
94. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
95. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
96. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
97. A light touch or stroke.
98. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
99. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
100. United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis (born 1914).
101. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
2. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
3. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
4. Any of various units of capacity.
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
6. Capable of wounding.
7. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
8. Large hawk of the northern hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers.
9. An artificial language.
10. (archaic) A fitting reward.
11. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
12. One of a family of granular intrusive rocks.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
15. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
21. Tending or intended to rectify or improve.
23. A contrived or fantastic idea.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. Toward the mouth or oral region.
31. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
33. Common Indian weaverbird.
34. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
35. A metallic sound.
37. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
39. Associated with the priesthood or priests.
40. Of or relating to the stars or constellations.
42. Genus of herbs and subshrubs having showy flowers.
43. A giant planet which is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles.
44. A woman of refinement.
47. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
48. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
49. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
55. A Loloish language.
57. Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.
61. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
62. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
64. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ghana or its people or language.
65. (optics) Having two foci.
66. Capable of wounding.
67. Of or pertaining to adnexa.
69. A family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa.
72. Noisy quarrel.
77. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
79. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
80. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
82. The basic unit of money on Malta.
84. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
86. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
87. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
90. Used of a single unit or thing.
92. Inquire about.
93. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.

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