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1. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. A French abbot.
8. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
12. A major god.
16. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
17. With no effort to conceal.
18. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
19. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
20. A local computer network for communication between computers.
21. American novelist (1909-1955).
22. Be teeming, be abuzz.
23. A cape at the southern tip of Norway.
24. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
26. (Babylonian) Earth goddess.
28. Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet.
30. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
32. In bed.
33. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
34. A protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers.
37. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
39. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
44. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
45. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
51. Advanced in years.
52. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
56. A former French coin of low denomination.
58. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
59. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
60. Cap that fits over the hub of a wheel.
63. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
64. A piece of starched cloth covering the shoulders of a nun's habit.
65. Coextensive with the family Oleaceae.
67. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
68. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
69. English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718).
70. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
72. Altered from an originally straight condition.
73. A genus of Paridae.
78. Behavioral attributes.
81. Consider as ideal.
85. Production of a certain amount.
86. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
88. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
89. A resource.
90. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
91. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
94. Either extremity of something that has length.
95. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
96. A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind.
97. A small cake leavened with yeast.
98. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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1. Of a pale purple color.
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. Any tree of the genus Genipa bearing yellow flowers and edible fruit with a thick rind.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
6. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
7. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
8. Youngest daughter of the prophet Mohammed and wife of the fourth calif Ali.
9. Of or relating to the spleen.
10. Of or relating to or involving an area.
11. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
12. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
13. (Akkadian) Mother of the gods and consort of Apsu.
14. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
15. Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people).
25. Humorously vulgar.
27. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
29. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing.
36. A triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof.
38. Lightweight parka.
40. A cooperative unit.
41. A vessel made of material that does not melt easily.
42. Divulge information or secrets.
46. (Old Testament) A son of Jacob and forefather of one of the tribes of Israel.
47. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
48. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
49. God of wealth and love.
50. Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves.
53. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
54. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
55. A language of Australian aborigines.
57. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
61. A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat.
62. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
66. Talk idly or casually, in a friendly way.
67. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
71. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
74. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
75. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
76. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
77. Leafless East Indian vine.
79. A genus of Mustelidae.
80. The food served and eaten at one time.
82. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
83. Deliver by singing.
84. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
87. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
92. Conforming to truth.
93. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
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