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1. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
4. A fastener for a door or lid.
8. Any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.
12. Unusually short.
16. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
17. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
18. Covered with frost.
19. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
20. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
23. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
24. The brother of your father or mother.
26. American novelist (1909-1955).
28. A rack for temporarily holding coats and hats.
30. Hear or try a court case anew.
33. Located inward.
35. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
37. Large brightly crested bird of Africa.
41. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
43. In a tastelessly garish manner.
45. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
46. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
47. A port city in southwestern Iran.
48. (Maine colloquial) Temporary summer resident in inland Maine n 1.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
50. 36th President of the United States.
51. A source of danger.
54. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
55. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
60. Any of the chemical elements fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine.
63. Cause to lose one's nerve.
64. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
65. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
66. Deciduous shrub of North America.
69. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
70. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
74. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
78. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. Of or relating to near the ear.
86. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
88. Fallow deer.
89. Wild and domestic cattle.
91. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
93. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
94. (informal) Of the highest quality.
95. Jordan's port.
96. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
97. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
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1. A rich black loam of India.
2. Complacently or inanely foolish.
3. United States operatic tenor (born in Denmark) noted for his Wagnerian roles (1890-1973).
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
7. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
8. Able to act at will.
9. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
10. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
11. A sequence of powerful leaders in the same family.
12. Norwegian explorer who led expeditions into the Arctic (1855-1930).
13. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
14. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
15. Related to or located at the back.
25. The linear extent in space from one end to the other.
27. Hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck.
29. God of war and sky.
31. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.
32. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
34. Of or relating to rabbis or their teachings.
36. The wife or widow of a czar.
38. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
39. A group of islands in the southeastern West Indies.
40. Attempt to anticipate or predict.
42. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
44. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
52. Any distinct time period in a sequence of events.
53. Range of what one can know or understand.
56. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
57. 1/10 gram.
58. A color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red.
59. Tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down.
61. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
62. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
67. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened.
68. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
71. A charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers.
72. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
73. Animal food for browsing or grazing.
75. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
76. Lower in esteem.
77. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
80. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
81. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
82. Any thick messy substance.
84. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
85. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
87. Military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces.
90. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
92. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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