Crossword Puzzle Number 5785 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
9. A door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall.
13. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
18. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
19. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. Showing deterioration from age.
22. World's longest river (4187 miles).
23. Having leadership guidance.
24. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. The act of becoming betrothed or engaged.
28. Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it.
30. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
32. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
34. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
36. 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).
40. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
41. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
43. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
46. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.
47. An implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end.
49. Unable to meet financial obligations.
53. A genus of Mustelidae.
55. Make less active or intense.
56. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
57. A facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth.
58. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
59. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
62. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
64. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
65. act between parties with a view to reconciling differences.
67. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
70. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
71. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
73. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
78. The state of owing money.
80. Make lighter or brighter.
83. Mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults.
87. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
90. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
92. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
93. Step on it.
94. (informal) Very tired.
95. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
96. Lie adjacent to another.
97. A local computer network for communication between computers.
98. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
99. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
100. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).

DOWN

1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
5. Cause to change.
6. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
7. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
8. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
9. A province in north-central China.
10. (zoology) Pertaining to or characteristic of birds.
11. A gate or bar across a toll bridge or toll road which is lifted when the toll is paid.
12. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
13. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. English monk and scholar (672-735).
25. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
27. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
29. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
31. An associate degree in nursing.
33. Small genus of chiefly American herbs.
35. A state of equilibrium.
37. Sturdy annual of Peru.
38. Of or relating to acetone.
39. A musical composition in several movements.
42. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
44. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
45. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
48. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
50. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
51. Located inward.
52. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
54. One thousand grams.
60. Of great mass.
61. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
63. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
66. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
68. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
69. Of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples.
70. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
72. A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols.
74. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
75. Fill with high spirits.
76. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
77. A city in central Alabama on the Alabama river.
79. English essayist (1775-1834).
81. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
82. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
83. An associate degree in nursing.
84. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
85. A doctor's degree in music.
86. United States feminist and suffragist (1793-1880).
88. A master's degree in business.
89. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
91. The basic unit of money in Albania.

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