Crossword Puzzle Number 5966 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. An honorary arts degree.
9. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
13. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
16. Towards the side away from the wind.
17. Spanish poet and dramatist (1898-1936).
18. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
22. (Akkadian) Mother of the gods and consort of Apsu.
24. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
26. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
28. Free from disturbance.
30. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
31. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
32. A light touch or stroke.
34. (of fabric or clothing) Having been given a faded (weathered) appearance by artificial means.
36. An official at a baseball game.
39. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
40. A small island.
44. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
45. Small family of usually tropical butterflies.
49. Male red deer.
50. A chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony.
51. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
52. (usually followed by `with' or used in a combining form) Having items suspended on or from a support.
53. The virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
55. A master's degree in business.
57. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
58. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
60. The capital of Nationalist China.
63. Somewhat elderly.
65. A reason for wanting something done.
66. (Babylonian) Father of the gods.
67. Abnormal dryness of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eyes.
68. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
69. Without moral standards or principles.
71. A state in northwestern North America.
72. A genus of Mustelidae.
74. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
76. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
77. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
78. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
81. Indigo bush.
83. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
86. German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956).
89. Derived from or containing calcium or lime.
92. An ancient city is southern Greece.
94. A form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts of the queen of spades.
96. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
97. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
98. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
100. United States baseball player (born in 1931).
101. The fatty flesh of eel.
102. A quantity of no importance.
103. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
104. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
105. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.

DOWN

1. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
2. English monk and scholar (672-735).
3. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
4. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
5. Decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor.
6. A journey for some purpose (usually including the return).
7. The skin that covers the top of the head.
8. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
9. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
10. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
11. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
12. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound.
13. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
14. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
15. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
21. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
23. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
25. Somewhat strange.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. Fallow deer.
33. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
35. A strongly made box for holding money or valuables.
37. The lean flesh of a saltwater fish found it warm waters (especially Hawaii).
38. Someone who deliberately foments trouble.
41. Workplace for the teaching or practice of an art.
42. One of two official languages of Norway.
43. A milkshake with egg in it.
46. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
47. A genetic abnormality resulting in short stature.
48. A word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition.
54. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
56. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. An ache localized in the middle or inner ear.
62. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
64. A worthless message.
70. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
73. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
74. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
75. A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables.
77. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
78. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
79. Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked.
80. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
82. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
84. (classical architecture) A molding for a cornice.
85. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
87. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
88. A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.).
90. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
91. Used of physical coldness.
93. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
95. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
99. Informal terms for a mother.

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