Crossword Puzzle Number 5722 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A branch of the Tai languages.
5. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
9. (trademark) A type of inflatable air mattress.
13. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
16. A farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing.
17. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
18. A cry of sorrow and grief.
19. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
20. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
21. The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
23. Egyptian statesman who nationalized the Suez Canal (1918-1870).
25. The act of tying things together.
27. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
29. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
30. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
32. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
34. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
38. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
39. 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.
40. (Greek mythology) The god of the underworld in ancient mythology.
42. A shade of blue tinged with green.
45. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
47. The capital of Lesotho.
49. A city in northwestern Turkey.
52. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
55. Produced by or subjected to forcing.
57. Order by virtue of superior authority.
58. A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).
60. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
62. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
63. Not known.
65. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
67. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
68. An advantageous purchase.
69. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound.
72. A large fleet.
74. Small genus of perennial herbs having deadly poisonous tuberous roots.
76. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.
78. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
81. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
83. Something twisted and tight and swollen.
87. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
89. Pacific newts.
91. How long something has existed.
92. An early type of mandolin.
95. (Judaism) A Jewish harvest festival.
96. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
97. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
98. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
100. Weapons considered collectively.
101. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
102. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
103. Not only so, but.
104. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
2. A friendly nation.
3. A crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint).
4. A festival featuring African-American culture.
5. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
6. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
7. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
8. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
9. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. A widely distributed family of plants.
12. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
13. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
14. A drama set to music.
15. Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ.
22. Systematic investigation to establish facts.
24. The act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale).
26. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. An adult male singer with the lowest voice.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. A kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface).
36. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
37. T-shaped cleaning implement with a rubber edge across the top.
41. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
43. Having removed clothing.
44. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
46. Made of grated potato and egg with a little flour.
48. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
50. A Mid-Atlantic state.
51. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
53. Of or relating to or characteristic of Monaco or its people.
54. Garlic mayonnaise.
56. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
59. The compass point midway between south and west.
61. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
64. The intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception.
66. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
70. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
71. Tag the base runner to get him out.
73. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
74. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
75. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
77. Remaining after all deductions.
79. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
80. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
82. A mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten.
84. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
85. A parallelogram with four equal sides.
86. The sacred city of Lamaism.
88. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
90. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
93. An informal term for a father.
94. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
99. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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