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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. Not fitting closely.
9. The compass point that is one point south of southwest.
13. (informal) Roused to anger.
16. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
18. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder.
22. The capital and largest city of Dominica.
24. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
28. The sacred city of Lamaism.
30. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
32. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
35. A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one).
39. (printing) Written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it.
43. The state of being decayed or destroyed.
44. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
49. Informal terms for a meal.
51. A genus of Ploceidae.
53. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
54. Lose clarity or turn aside esp. from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking.
56. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
57. The imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC.
59. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
60. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
61. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
62. A rapid bustling commotion.
63. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
66. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
67. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
69. A genus of Pleuronectidae.
72. Singing popular songs accompanied by a recording of an orchestra (usually in bars or nightclubs).
75. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
77. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
80. An ancient Greek city in Boeotia destroyed by Alexander the Great in 336 BC.
84. Lie adjacent to another.
88. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
89. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
90. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
91. A feeling of anger caused by being offended.
93. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
96. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
97. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
98. Combining or mixing.
99. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves.
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1. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
2. A neutral middle vowel.
3. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
6. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
7. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
8. Battle in World War I (1917).
9. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
10. Any period of seven consecutive days.
11. The cry made by sheep.
12. Rounded brimless cap fitting the crown of the head.
13. A landlocked republic in southern central Africa.
14. By bad luck.
15. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
21. Danish chemist who devised the pH scale (1868-1939).
23. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
27. Rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey.
29. Succulent herbaceous vegetation of pasture land.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
34. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
36. A river that rises in western Arkansas and flows southeast into eastern Louisiana to become a tributary of the Red River.
37. Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur.
38. A short sleeveless undergarment for women.
40. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
41. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
42. Only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand.
45. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
46. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
50. A public promotion of some product or service.
52. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
55. Relating to or used in or intended for trade or commerce.
58. British physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on holography (1900-1979).
64. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
65. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
68. Founder of Buddhism.
69. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
70. Canadian writer noted for his analyses of the mass media (1911-1980).
71. Of or relating to the pleura or the walls of the thorax.
72. A landlocked republic in southern central Africa.
73. (Old Testament) A son of Jacob and forefather of one of the tribes of Israel.
74. A blow that renders the opponent unconscious.
76. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
78. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
79. Using the voice.
81. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
82. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
83. Having a smooth, gleaming surface.
85. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
86. The food served and eaten at one time.
87. The basic unit of money in China.
92. One ten thousandth of a centner.
94. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
95. Being one more than fifty.
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