Crossword Puzzle Number 5729 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
4. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
9. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
13. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. (Welsh) Lord of Annwfn (the other world.
18. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. Involving the entire earth.
22. A technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing).
24. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
26. American dwarf fan palms.
27. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
28. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
31. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
32. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
34. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
35. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
37. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
39. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
42. A city in east central Texas.
45. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
49. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
50. Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa Asia and Australia.
53. Abounding in or covered with ferns.
54. The sign language used in the United States.
56. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
57. Make or become free of frost or ice.
59. 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).
61. An acronym for Emissions of Light and Very low frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic pulse Sources.
62. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
63. How long something has existed.
64. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
68. American poet (born in England) (1907-1973).
70. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
71. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
72. A state of southwestern India.
74. A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart.
75. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
79. A small cake leavened with yeast.
82. (of persons) Freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject.
84. Having help.
88. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
91. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
93. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
94. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
95. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
96. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
98. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
99. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
100. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
101. A city in northern India.
102. Sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons.

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1. Holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object.
2. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
3. Found along western Atlantic coast.
4. To a severe or serious degree.
5. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
6. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.
7. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
8. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
9. God of the underworld and judge of the dead.
10. A radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium.
11. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
14. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
15. A genus of Ploceidae.
21. 1 species.
23. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
25. (Greek mythology) Fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail.
29. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
30. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
33. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
36. A person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud.
38. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
40. Heighten or intensify.
41. American patriot who rode with Paul Revere to warn that the British were advancing on Lexington and Concord (1745-1799).
43. Take revenge for a perceived wrong.
44. A South American river 1,500 miles long.
46. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
47. Any substance (as a toxin or enzyme) that stimulates the production of antibodies.
48. Type genus of the Lycaenidae.
51. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
52. Of or in or relating to the nose.
55. An informal term for a father.
58. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
60. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
65. A shape that sags.
66. In a weary manner.
67. 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha.
69. Inflammation of the uvea of the eye.
70. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
73. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
76. (botany) Relating to or attached to the axis.
77. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
78. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
80. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
81. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
83. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
85. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
86. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
87. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
89. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
90. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
91. Make or shape as with an axe.
92. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
97. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.

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