Crossword Puzzle Number 5789 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Marked by skill in deception.
4. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
9. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
13. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
16. An informal debt instrument.
17. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
18. English essayist (1775-1834).
19. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
20. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
21. Italian philosopher who used Copernican principles to develop a pantheistic monistic philosophy.
22. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
23. The cry made by sheep.
24. The sixth month of the civil year.
26. An aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees.
29. The illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents.
30. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
32. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
34. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
36. A deep bow.
39. The square of a body of any size of type.
44. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
45. The French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec.
47. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
50. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
51. (usually followed by `for') Extremely desirous.
54. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
55. Take in solid food.
56. Small genus of European herbs.
57. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
58. Of or relating to or near the sternum.
60. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
62. A three-tone Chadic language.
63. Capable of being folded into two parts, as with doors that are hinged together.
67. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
71. In some classifications considered a genus of subfamily Melinae.
74. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
77. Collect or gather.
78. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
79. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
83. A hole (usually with a flush cover) through which a person can gain access to an underground structure.
86. Island in West Indies.
88. The month following February and preceding April.
89. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
90. The capital of Morocco.
92. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
93. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
94. Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units.
95. Informal terms for a human head.
96. A small cake leavened with yeast.
97. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.

DOWN

1. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
2. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
3. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
4. A light touch or stroke.
5. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.
6. A roll of ribbon.
7. Submersible vessel for one or two persons.
8. (Philippine) A dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish.
9. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
10. Using the voice.
11. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
14. Taken or to be taken at random.
15. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
25. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
27. An associate degree in nursing.
28. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
31. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. Strive to equal or match, especially by imitating.
35. With superficial adornments added.
37. (of exocrine glands) Producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion.
38. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
40. Capable of being scaled.
41. An elaborate song for solo voice.
42. A pen for cattle.
43. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
46. To come or go into.
48. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
49. A histamine blocker and antacid (trade name Zantac) used to treat peptic ulcers and gastritis and esophageal reflux.
52. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
53. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
59. Marked by smartness in dress and manners.
61. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
64. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
65. Eight performers or singers who perform together.
66. A bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases.
68. Accumulate on the surface.
69. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
70. Before noon.
72. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
73. An antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class.
75. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
76. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
81. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
82. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
84. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
85. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
86. A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments).
87. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
91. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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