Crossword Puzzle Number 5856 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. Genus of prickly shrubs and small trees of the Caribbean region.
8. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
12. A small quantity of liquid.
16. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
17. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
18. The second largest of the Hawaiian Islands.
19. God of the Underworld.
20. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
22. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
24. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
25. In or of the present month.
26. At full speed.
28. A salt of any halogen acid.
30. Claim back.
33. Make uniform.
37. Weapons considered collectively.
41. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon.
44. A linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em.
47. A Greek island west of Greece.
49. A port in southwestern Scotland.
50. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
51. The yield from plants in a single growing season.
52. Of or relating to or obtained from amber.
57. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
58. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
59. A medicine that induces nausea and vomiting.
61. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
63. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
64. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
65. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
68. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
69. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
70. Suggestive of the supernatural.
71. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
74. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
76. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
77. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
78. State in northeastern India.
80. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
86. A small cake leavened with yeast.
89. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
91. Genus of small clump-forming fan palms of China and Japan.
93. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
94. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
95. An iconic mental representation.
97. A sharply directional antenna.
98. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
99. A kind of person.
100. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
101. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
102. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.

DOWN

1. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
2. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
3. Of a pale purple color.
4. A bachelor's degree in religion.
5. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
6. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
7. A Loloish language.
8. Before noon.
9. Grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs.
10. A three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides.
11. Step on it.
12. A language of Australian aborigines.
13. Type genus of the Ranidae.
14. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
15. Liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned.
21. Edible mushroom.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
29. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
31. That is to say.
32. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. One species.
35. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
36. (Norse mythology) Trickster.
38. Far distant in space.
39. An iron-clad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North.
40. Bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the strings.
42. A small pouch into which the semicircular canals open.
43. An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram.
45. An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs.
46. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
48. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
53. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
54. Wife of Balder.
55. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
56. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
60. (Canadian) A half-breed of white and Indian parentage.
62. An Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers.
66. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
67. Being or given to servile imitation.
72. Any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family.
73. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
74. That is to say.
75. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
79. Goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis.
81. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
82. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
83. Informal terms for a mother.
84. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
85. United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United states films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954).
87. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
88. A city in northern India.
90. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
92. A person's brother or sister.
96. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.

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