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1. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
4. Type genus of the Elopidae.
9. A light-weight hat worn in tropical countries for protection from the sun.
13. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
16. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
17. (architecture) Oldest and simplest of the three orders of classical Greek architecture.
18. In bed.
19. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
20. Approaching a particular destination.
22. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
24. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
25. Undo the ties of.
28. A system of solmization using the solfa syllables.
29. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
31. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
33. God of wealth and love.
35. By bad luck.
39. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
44. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
45. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
46. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
47. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
50. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
51. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
53. English statesman famous for his oratory.
55. A hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity).
57. Of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain.
59. (British) Your grandmother.
60. (mythology) According to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that was swallowed by an earthquake.
61. Receives blood from lower limbs and abdominal organs and empties into the posterior part of the right atrium of the heart.
63. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
64. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
67. Constituting the full quantity or extent.
68. Harsh criticism or disapproval.
70. An oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas.
72. In some classifications considered a genus of subfamily Melinae.
75. A Nilotic language.
77. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
83. The month following February and preceding April.
84. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
88. A unit of pressure.
89. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe.
90. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
92. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
93. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
94. Related on the mother's side.
95. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
96. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. The ossicle between the malleus and the stapes.
2. The capital and largest city of Lithuania.
3. An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon.
4. A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution.
5. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote.
6. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
7. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
8. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
9. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
10. A slender double-reed instrument.
11. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
12. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
13. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
21. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
23. Of or relating to or characteristic of Kashmir or its people or culture.
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
27. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
30. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
34. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
36. Sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers v 1.
37. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
38. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
40. The basic unit of money in Spain.
41. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
42. Being nine more than ninety.
43. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
48. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
49. Blister beetles.
52. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
54. Type genus of the Sittidae.
56. A penicillinase-resistant form of penicillin (trade name Nafcil) used (usually in the form of its sodium salt) to treat infections caused by penicillin-resistant strains of staphylococci.
58. A genus of Laridae.
62. Filaments from a cobweb.
65. A large wardrobe or cabinet.
66. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
69. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
70. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
71. Being one more than one.
73. Lower in esteem.
74. Being deficient in moisture.
76. Rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force, as on a wave.
78. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
79. On the positive side or higher end of a scale.
80. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
81. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
82. Type genus of the Hylidae.
85. The longest division of geological time.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
87. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
91. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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