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1. An enclosed space.
4. Covered with a firm surface.
9. A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. The United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data.
17. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
18. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
19. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
20. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
21. (medicine) A systematic plan for therapy (often including diet).
23. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.
25. Small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae.
27. Having winglike extensions.
28. Improved or corrected by critical editing.
29. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
31. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
33. Place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed.
36. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
40. A state in the eastern United States.
41. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
43. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
44. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
45. Related on the mother's side.
47. Sour or bitter in taste.
49. (British) Diesel oil used in cars and lorries with diesel engines (from d(iesel) e(ngine) r(oad) v(ehicle)).
50. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
51. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
53. Furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping.
54. Having a smooth, gleaming surface.
56. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
58. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
59. Contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.
60. A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme.
61. (informal) Exceptionally good.
63. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
64. Jordan's port.
66. Read anew.
69. Lower in esteem.
71. A university in Connecticut.
74. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
76. An affirmative.
78. The hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn.
82. Most important element.
84. Extremely robust.
88. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
89. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Orudis or Orudis KT or Oruvail).
92. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
93. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
94. South American caracara.
96. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
97. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
98. Relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur.
99. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
2. Type genus of the Amiidae.
3. An adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
4. A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc.
5. How long something has existed.
6. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
7. The boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
8. Fallow deer.
9. (mathematics) Directly proportional.
10. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
11. A tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top.
12. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet.
13. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
14. Serving as or forming a base.
15. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
22. More of the same adv.
24. Photograph reduced to the size of a dot (usually for purposes of security).
26. Insanely irresponsible.
30. Show a response or a reaction to something.
32. Writing board used on the lap as a table or desk.
34. Civet of Madagascar.
35. Foul with waste matter.
37. Of or relating to the United States of America or its people or language or culture.
38. A city in northwestern Somalia.
39. Lacking knowledge or skill.
42. A monastery for lamas.
46. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
48. A motley assortment of things.
52. Terminate before completion, as of a computer process, a mission, etc..
55. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
57. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
62. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
65. A small cloth bag filled with dried beans.
66. A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc.
67. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
68. An amine containing the double bond linkage -C=C-N-.
69. (mathematics) Directly proportional.
70. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
71. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
72. An enthusiastic kiss.
73. United States writer (born in 1933).
75. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
77. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
79. Using speech rather than writing.
80. Avatar of Vishnu.
81. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
82. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
83. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
85. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
86. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
87. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
90. Goddess of fate.
91. 10 grams.
95. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
96. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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