Crossword Puzzle Number 5968 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception.
8. The elapsed time it takes for light (or radio signals) to travel between the Earth and a celestial object.
12. Chief port of Yemen.
16. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
17. An instinctive motive.
18. Drive away by crying "shoo!".
19. A flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces.
20. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
21. (Babylonian) Goddess of healing and consort of Ninurta.
22. A cooperative unit.
23. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
24. A fraudulent business scheme.
26. Rigidly formal.
29. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
30. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
32. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
35. A state in southeastern United States.
36. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
39. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
40. Dried bark of various magnolias.
44. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. Ornamentation with beads.
48. A master's degree in religion.
50. The basic unit of money in China.
52. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
53. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
54. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
55. A genus of Psittacidae.
57. A proud stiff pompous gait.
59. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
61. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
63. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
64. Type genus of the Anatidae.
65. Frivolous banter.
68. The sixth month of the civil year.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
72. Small genus of South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti.
74. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
79. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
80. Large widely distributed genus of perennial herbs or shrubs or subshrubs.
82. Uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm.
86. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
87. Lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head.
89. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
90. The quantity contained in a keg.
91. Owed as a debt.
92. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
94. The residue that remains when something is burned.
95. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
96. Disposed of as useless.
97. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
98. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.

DOWN

1. A bachelor's degree in library science.
2. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
3. Some point in the air.
4. (British informal) An airless smoky smelly atmosphere.
5. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
6. An Eskimo hut.
7. Show a response or a reaction to something.
8. Tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell.
9. A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip).
10. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
11. Contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.
12. A literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning.
13. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
14. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
15. Large semi-evergreen tree of East India.
25. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
27. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
28. The cry made by sheep.
31. God of wealth and love.
33. A saucepan used for stewing.
34. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
37. Narrow and long and pointed.
38. Widespread genus or herbs or soft-wooded arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers.
41. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
42. A tumor consisting of fatty tissue.
43. Complain bitterly.
46. English monk and scholar (672-735).
49. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Reticulum and Pictor.
51. Jordan's port.
56. A form of Japanese poetry.
58. Walk or tramp about.
60. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
62. Affirm once again.
66. (biology) In a condition of biological rest or suspended animation.
67. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
70. The quantity that a barrow will hold.
73. A small hairpiece to cover partial baldness.
75. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
76. A slight push or shake.
77. An alcoholic beverage made from fermented mare's milk.
78. Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end.
79. Before noon.
81. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
83. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
84. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
85. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
88. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
93. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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