Crossword Puzzle Number 5839 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
4. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
8. A band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain.
12. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
16. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
17. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
18. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
19. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia.
20. Open the lock of.
22. Make a cackling sound.
24. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
25. A group of southern Bantu languages.
27. Traveling on horseback.
29. Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Dombeya grown for their rounded clusters of exquisite often sweet-scented flowers usually hanging beneath the leaves.
30. A nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century.
33. The longest division of geological time.
36. An associate degree in applied science.
39. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
41. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
45. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
46. Indras's thunderbolt.
48. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
49. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
50. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
52. Toward the mouth or oral region.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. A city and port in northern Jutland.
57. The airforce of Great Britain.
59. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
61. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
62. Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts.
65. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
66. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
67. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
68. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
72. Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784).
74. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
77. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
78. A commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido.
81. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
82. A caress with the lips.
84. Causing abrasion.
90. The provision of money temporarily (usually at interest).
91. A city in northwestern Mexico near the California border.
93. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
94. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
96. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
97. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
98. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
99. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
100. 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.
101. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

DOWN

1. Come upon unexpectedly or after searching.
2. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
3. Make lighter or brighter.
4. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
5. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
6. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
7. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
8. The horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low.
9. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
10. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
11. A deep bow.
12. An ancient city in southeastern Greece.
13. Basic principles of the cosmos.
14. Obscene terms for female genitals.
15. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
21. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Characteristic of or relating to winter.
31. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
32. Recite in elocution.
34. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
35. A river in the east central United States.
37. Youthful appearance in an old person.
38. Any of various seaweeds that grow underwater in shallow beds.
40. A bottle with a stopper.
42. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
44. A university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign.
47. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
51. An oldster in his dotage.
54. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
56. (informal) Of the highest quality.
58. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
60. Offering fun and gaiety.
63. Attach a yoke or harness to, as of a draft animal.
64. An iron-clad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North.
69. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
70. A state in midwestern United States.
71. Not final or absolute.
73. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
75. United States space station.
76. The opening of a subject to public discussion and debate.
79. The address where a person lives.
80. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
83. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
85. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
86. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
87. A hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward.
88. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
89. An informal term for a father.
92. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
95. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.

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