Crossword Puzzle Number 5948 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Affected manners intended to impress others.
5. A bachelor's degree in library science.
9. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
13. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
16. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
17. 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.
18. The twelfth month of the civil year.
19. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
20. Of or relating to the kingdom of Kuwait or its people.
22. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
24. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
25. Run away secretly with one's beloved.
26. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
28. The capital and largest city of Liechtenstein.
29. A motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities.
30. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
32. Having a squat and fleshy build.
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
41. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
43. A position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it.
45. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
47. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
48. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
50. Tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets.
53. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
54. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
56. Spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods.
59. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
62. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
63. Enthusiastic approval.
64. (Akkadian) Mother of the gods and consort of Apsu.
66. New Zealand conifer.
68. The act of scanning.
70. Being nine more than forty.
71. A white trivalent metallic element.
72. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
73. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
74. The third day of the week.
77. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
84. Small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button.
86. Bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized.
89. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
91. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
93. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
94. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
96. The content of cognition.
97. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
98. (informal) Of the highest quality.
99. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
100. Wild goose having white adult plumage.
101. Either extremity of something that has length.

DOWN

1. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
2. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
3. Express the same message in different words.
4. An airplane that can land on or take off from water.
5. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
6. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
7. 16 ounces.
8. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
9. Time during which some action is awaited.
10. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
11. The quantity that can be held in a mug.
12. Of or relating to Slavic languages.
13. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
14. Relating to the Urdu language.
15. Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
21. That is to say.
23. Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.
27. A state in northwestern North America.
29. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
31. United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927).
33. Tag the base runner to get him out.
36. (India) Flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle.
38. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
39. A green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate.
40. Exercise that increases the need for oxygen.
42. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
44. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
46. A person regarded as greedy and pig-like.
49. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
51. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
52. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
55. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
57. A bar of sand.
58. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
60. Pleasantly occupied.
61. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
65. Or or related to acetic acid.
67. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
69. 30 to 300 megahertz.
75. The amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full.
76. Lower in esteem.
78. Make less active or intense.
79. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
80. Be in accord.
81. A language group of the Hokan family.
83. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
85. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
87. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
88. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
90. A master's degree in education.
92. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
95. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.

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