Crossword Puzzle Number 5829 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
4. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
9. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
13. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
16. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
17. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
18. Very dark black.
19. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
20. Free from liquid or moisture.
21. The opposite of youngness.
23. Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.
25. Made of fir or pine.
27. Guiding star.
29. Causing a dull and steady pain.
30. A genus of Mustelidae.
32. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
33. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
34. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
35. Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end.
36. A means of serving.
39. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
42. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
43. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
47. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
50. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
53. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
54. The form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published.
56. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
57. Having relatively few calories.
58. A public building for gambling and entertainment.
61. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
62. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
63. Of or relating to the hands.
64. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
66. Affecting things past.
67. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
70. 1/10 gram.
71. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
78. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
83. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
86. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
87. A baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head.
89. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
90. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
91. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
93. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
94. Compete for something.
95. A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
96. The act of scanning.
97. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
98. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

DOWN

1. Mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults.
2. Be in accord.
3. Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur.
4. Gone by.
5. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
6. An oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde.
7. The basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the System International d'Unites.
8. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
9. Offering fun and gaiety.
10. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
11. Black gallinule that inhabits ponds and lakes.
12. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
13. A city in central New York.
14. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
15. The univalent hydrocarbon radical C2H5 derived from ethane by the removal of one hydrogen atom.
22. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
24. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
26. Former name for the order Crocodylia.
28. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
31. Offering fun and gaiety.
37. A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars.
38. Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic.
40. Go into retirement.
41. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
44. (India) The driver and keeper of an elephant.
45. United States physicist and molecular biologist who helped develop the first atom bomb and later opposed the use of all nuclear weapons (1898-1964).
46. A synthetic corticosteroid (trade names Aristocort or Aristopak or Kenalog) used as an anti-inflammatory agent.
48. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
49. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
51. Any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term).
52. 100 aurar equal 1 krona.
55. Drug (trade name Isordil) used to treat angina pectoris and congestive heart failure.
59. Before noon.
60. Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955).
65. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
68. The selling of something purchased.
69. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
72. Of or relating to or containing barium.
73. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
74. Towards the side away from the wind.
75. Obvious and dull.
76. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
77. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
79. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
80. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
81. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
82. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
84. (aeronautical) Pertaining to the tail section of a plane.
85. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
88. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
92. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.

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