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1. The site of an archeological exploration.
4. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
9. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. A republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States.
18. By bad luck.
19. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
20. (informal) Of the highest quality.
21. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
22. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
23. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
24. A corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages.
26. Edible mushroom.
29. Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. Not dense.
36. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
38. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
40. Any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida.
42. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
45. (Norse mythology) A dwarf who possessed a treasure that was stolen by Loki.
49. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
50. A South American river.
54. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
55. Haddock usually baked but sometimes broiled with lots of butter.
58. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
59. A unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold.
61. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
62. Type genus of the Agonidae.
64. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
66. (Norse mythology) Giant who lives in the roots of Yggdrasil and guards the well of wisdom.
67. Painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of Dadaism.
68. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
72. (followed by `with') Deeply filled or permeated.
79. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
80. Expected hopefully.
85. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
87. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
89. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
90. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
91. The basic unit of money in Saudi Arabia.
92. In bed.
93. The force of workers available.
94. A boy or man.
95. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
96. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
97. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
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1. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
2. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
3. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
4. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
5. The waging of armed conflict against an enemy.
6. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
7. The prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races.
8. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
9. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
10. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
11. A race between candidates for elective office.
12. The sign language used in the United States.
13. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
14. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
15. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
25. A member of the agricultural people living in the central Volga provinces of European Russia.
27. Deciduous aromatic shrubs or small trees.
28. A draft for the amount of a dishonored draft plus the costs and charges of drafting again.
30. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
33. An analgesic for mild pain.
34. A bee that is a a member of the genus Andrena.
35. A city of central China.
37. A woman sahib.
39. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
41. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
43. An ancient area on the Ionian Sea that flourished as a kingdom in the 3rd century BC.
44. The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal).
46. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
47. Laborer who works in a mine.
48. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
51. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
52. A desert in southern Israel.
53. An Italian woman of rank.
56. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
57. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. Issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.).
63. A member of a people in India living in Orissa and neighboring areas.
65. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
69. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
70. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
71. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
73. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
74. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
75. Any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola.
76. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
77. A populous province in northeastern China.
78. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
81. The property of distance in general.
82. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
83. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
84. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
85. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
86. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
88. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
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