Crossword Puzzle Number 5769 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Indicating the most important performer or role.
5. A recognizable kind.
9. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
13. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
16. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
17. Toward the mouth or oral region.
18. A garment that covers the head and face.
19. A human limb.
20. An unforeseen obstacle.
21. European freshwater fish resembling the roach.
22. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
23. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
24. Any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
32. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
35. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
36. An outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles.
40. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
45. A member of a formerly tribal people now living in south central India.
46. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
50. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
51. A three-tone Chadic language.
52. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
53. A small nail.
54. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
55. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
56. An ordered reference standard.
60. A system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year.
62. Someone who dwells in a cave.
64. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
65. The basic unit of money in Macao.
68. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
69. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
71. A Russian river.
73. A swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana).
76. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
77. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
80. The eleventh month of the civil year.
81. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
84. The capital of Western Samoa.
87. In bed.
89. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
91. Any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent.
93. A small cake leavened with yeast.
94. Related by blood.
96. A small hard fruit.
98. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
99. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
100. Very attentive or observant.
101. An informal term for a father.
102. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
2. Tropical American flat-jointed prickly pear.
3. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
4. A motley assortment of things.
5. A muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range.
6. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
7. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
8. A doctor's degree in education.
9. A genus of Indriidae.
10. Fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus.
11. A knapsack (usually for a soldier).
12. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
13. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
14. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
15. A city in northern India.
25. American novelist (1909-1955).
26. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
27. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
30. Having high moral qualities.
31. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
33. Of or pertaining to the adrenal glands or their secretions.
34. The sixth month of the civil year.
37. A resident of Alabama.
38. A canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter.
39. Board a plane.
41. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
42. Relating to minerals.
43. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
44. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
47. Serving as or forming a base.
48. Having been read.
49. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
57. 1 species.
58. A festival featuring African-American culture.
59. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
61. Made of or resembling lace.
63. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
66. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
67. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
70. A painful sore with a hard pus-filled core.
72. Used of eyes lacking liveliness.
73. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
74. A means of serving.
75. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
78. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
79. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
82. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
83. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
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. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
87. A flexible container with a single opening.
88. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
90. Black tropical American cuckoo.
91. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
92. The square of a body of any size of type.
95. An informal term for a father.
97. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.

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