Crossword Puzzle Number 5753 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
8. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
12. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
16. A master's degree in fine arts.
17. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
18. A genus of Mustelidae.
19. A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges.
20. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
21. A four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine.
23. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
24. Any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers.
26. A support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table).
27. Clean or orderly.
28. The habitation of wild animals.
29. A colorless liquid hydrocarbon extracted from petroleum or coal tar and used in making synthetic resins.
31. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
33. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
34. Be obedient to.
38. Not yet used or soiled.
41. A permanent council of the United Nations.
45. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
46. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
48. The quantity contained in a keg.
49. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
51. Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.
52. Characteristic of or affected by neurosis.
55. Automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system.
56. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
58. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
60. The front limb of a quadruped.
62. A republic on the west coast of Africa.
63. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
64. Before noon.
65. The spirit of evil in Zoroastrianism.
68. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
69. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
71. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
72. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
74. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
79. Singing jazz.
81. An island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea.
85. A region of central Europe rich in deposits of coal and iron ore.
88. A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus.
90. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
91. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
92. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
93. The second largest state.
95. indicate by signs.
97. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
98. How long something has existed.
99. United States writer of stories and plays (1894-1946).
100. A French abbot.
101. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
2. The second largest city in Tunisia.
3. Treated with contempt.
4. In an extreme degree.
5. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
6. A thrusting blow with a knife.
7. Someone who practices homosexuality.
8. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
9. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
10. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
11. Of or relating to the heart.
12. Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928).
13. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
14. Of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba.
15. Having winglike extensions.
22. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
25. Marked by spirited enjoyment.
30. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
32. Agarics with pink spores but lacking both volva and annulus (includes some that are poisonous).
35. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
36. Port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan.
37. Metal supports for logs in a fireplace.
39. Relating to or near the ulna.
40. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
42. A port town on the Atlantic coast of Portugal southeast of Lisbon.
43. (law) A courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge in a trial that is held out of the jury's hearing.
44. A small container (as one holding electronic equipment).
47. Situated near one another.
50. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
53. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
54. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
57. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
59. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
61. British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature (1888-1965).
66. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
67. (trademark) A light plastic disk about 10 inches in diameter.
68. Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928).
70. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
73. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
75. The hole that an anchor rope passes through.
76. 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha.
77. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
78. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
79. A decree that prohibits something.
80. 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.
82. A structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young.
83. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
84. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
86. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
87. God of love and erotic desire.
89. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
94. Being ten more than eighty.
96. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.

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