Crossword Puzzle Number 5990 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
4. The basic unit of money on Sao Tome e Principe.
9. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
16. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
17. Stay clear from.
18. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
19. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
20. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise.
21. Freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail.
22. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
24. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
26. A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
27. Prince's plume.
28. Marked by conspicuous display.
30. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
32. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
33. The visual property of something that shines with reflected light.
34. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
36. An inhabitant of Lappland.
40. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
46. Of or like a cecum.
47. No longer active or practicing.
49. Type genus of the Caricaceae.
52. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
53. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
55. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
56. (British) Your grandmother.
59. City in Sudan.
61. A rapid bustling commotion.
62. Dilatation or distension of a hollow organ.
64. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
66. The limits within which something can be effective.
67. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
70. Of or relating to the Isle of Man or its inhabitants or their language.
71. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
72. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
74. Top part of an apron.
76. In bed.
78. Former measure of the US economy.
79. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
81. An unwholesome atmosphere.
85. A dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin.
88. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
91. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
93. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
94. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
95. A low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches.
97. 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.
99. The sound made by a pigeon v 1.
100. A local computer network for communication between computers.
101. Squash bugs.
102. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
103. Adult female chicken.

DOWN

1. United States operatic soprano (born in 1929).
2. A spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others.
3. Socialist who wrote The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848 (1820-1895).
4. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
5. Located or originating from above.
6. The second wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Elizabeth I.
7. Cause annoyance in.
8. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
9. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
10. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
11. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
12. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
13. Moderate or restrain.
14. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
15. Made by polymerizing butadiene.
23. A blank leaf in the front of back of a book.
25. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
29. The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
31. Bear the expenses of.
35. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
37. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
38. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
39. A laminate made of thin layers of wood.
41. (historically) A member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire.
43. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
48. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
50. Of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion.
51. Jordan's port.
54. Be unbearably loud.
57. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
58. Being one more than one hundred.
60. Young sheep.
63. Placed crosswise.
65. Examination of conscience (as done daily by Jesuits).
68. (Greek mythology) The Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology.
69. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
73. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
75. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
77. A bachelor's degree in architecture.
80. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
81. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
82. The content of cognition.
83. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
84. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
86. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
87. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
89. Wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh.
90. Very dark black.
92. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
96. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
98. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.

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