Crossword Puzzle Number 5872 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
4. Any system of principles or beliefs.
9. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
13. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
16. Black tropical American cuckoo.
17. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
18. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
19. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
20. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
21. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
23. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
25. A football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal.
27. Shrubby plant with aromatic grayish-green leaves used as a cooking herb.
29. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
32. A written proposal or reminder.
33. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
35. A decree that prohibits something.
36. Informal terms for a meal.
39. A matador or one of the supporting team during a bull fight.
43. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
45. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
47. Given or having a specified name.
48. Meat from a calf.
52. Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17).
53. Of or being the lowest female voice.
54. A state in southeastern United States.
55. Any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC.
56. A state in the eastern United States.
57. Relating to or accompanying birth.
61. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
62. Not firm or firmly fixed.
64. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
66. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
67. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
69. An aromatic balsam.
70. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
72. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
75. Common Indian weaverbird.
77. A Hindu prince or king in India.
81. Done under pressure.
84. Small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions.
86. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
90. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
91. Someone who travels by raft.
93. A port on the Gulf of Oman and capital of the sultanate of Oman.
95. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
96. Any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as.
97. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
99. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
100. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
101. Formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men.
102. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
103. A port in southwestern Scotland.
104. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).

DOWN

1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
3. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
4. A byproduct of inflammation.
5. A rational motive for a belief or action.
6. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
7. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
8. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
9. Free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception.
10. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
11. A dark purplish red.
12. A figure of a man used as a supporting column.
13. A magic power or magic spell.
14. The act of scanning.
15. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
26. Relatively low in price or charging low prices.
28. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.
30. Any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior.
31. A light touch or stroke.
34. The largest island of Denmark and the site of Copenhagen.
37. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
40. The act of emitting.
41. (military) Signal to wake up.
42. (Greek Mythology) A famous mythical Greek hero.
44. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
46. 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).
49. (Babylonian) Consort of Anu.
50. Escape or flee.
51. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
58. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
59. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
60. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
63. A fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts).
65. Drooping of the upper eyelid caused by muscle paralysis and weakness.
68. Loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging.
71. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
73. A medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat.
74. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
76. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
77. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
78. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
79. An associate degree in nursing.
80. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
82. At a previous time.
83. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
85. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
87. A shade of blue tinged with green.
88. Posing no difficulty.
89. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
92. The sixth day of the week.
94. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
98. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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