Crossword Puzzle Number 5955 (Large Grid)

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1. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
4. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
18. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
19. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
20. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
21. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
22. Very dark black.
23. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
24. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
26. Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa.
29. Rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey.
32. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
34. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
35. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
37. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
39. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
40. The cry made by sheep.
43. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
47. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
49. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
52. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
54. Of or relating to or characteristic of Yemen or its inhabitants.
56. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
57. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
58. The habitation of wild animals.
60. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
63. A festival featuring African-American culture.
65. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
66. Belonging to some prior time.
67. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
69. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
70. A Bantu language spoken in central Tanzania.
73. A town in north central Oklahoma.
75. Half the width of an em.
76. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
77. The eleventh month of the civil year.
79. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
81. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
88. A quantity of no importance.
91. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
93. A large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka.
95. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
96. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
97. Fallow deer.
98. Black tropical American cuckoo.
99. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
100. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
101. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
102. A master's degree in education.
103. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

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1. Long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp.
2. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
3. One of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan.
4. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
5. A member of the agricultural people living in the central Volga provinces of European Russia.
6. Used of a single unit or thing.
7. A fastener for a door or lid.
8. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
9. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
10. (Greek mythology) God of love.
11. The longest division of geological time.
12. A native or inhabitant of Vietnam.
13. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
14. Tree (as opposed to shrub).
15. An Italian woman of rank.
25. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
31. Mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus.
33. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
36. A consonant pronounced with aspiration v 1.
38. A Eurasian plant with small white flowers yielding caraway seed.
41. (informal) Of the highest quality.
42. A strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp.
44. Large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns.
45. A small bone.
46. (formal) In or into that thing or place.
48. The southern part of the ancient Palestine succeeding the kingdom of Judah.
50. Put a new facing on, as of a garment.
51. 16 ounces.
53. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
55. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
59. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
61. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
62. United States magician (born in Hungary) famous for his ability to escape from chains or handcuffs or straitjackets of padlocked containers (1874-1926).
64. Given or having a specified name.
68. Type genus of the family Viverridae.
71. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
72. The capital of Croatia.
73. Of southern Europe.
74. A state in midwestern United States.
78. Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea.
79. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
80. A woman of refinement.
82. 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.
83. An elaborate song for solo voice.
84. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
85. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
86. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
87. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
89. Have supper.
90. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
92. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
93. A state in the eastern United States.
94. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.

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