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1. Gone by.
4. Relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco.
9. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
13. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
16. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
17. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
18. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
20. Of people.
22. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
24. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
25. A nap in the early afternoon (especially in hot countries).
26. An iconic mental representation.
27. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
28. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
29. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
32. The ability to form mental images of things or events.
34. (Greek mythology) The goddess of the hearth and its fire in ancient mythology.
36. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
37. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
40. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
45. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
50. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
53. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
54. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
55. A student enrolled in (or graduated from) Eton College.
56. A nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank.
57. A dress crepe.
59. Italian violinist (1782-1840).
60. Order by virtue of superior authority.
61. English translator and Protestant martyr.
64. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
65. Have supper.
67. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
70. T-shaped cleaning implement with a rubber edge across the top.
73. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
74. A school for students intermediate between elementary school and college.
77. A member of a Turkic people of Chinese Turkestan and neighboring areas (formerly of Mongolia and eastern Turkestan).
78. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
82. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
83. A diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work.
86. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
87. An honorary degree in science.
88. A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
89. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
91. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
92. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
93. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
94. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
95. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
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1. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
2. A desert in central Asia.
3. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
4. Not having a duct.
5. United States dancer and cinema actor noted for his original and graceful tap dancing (1899-1987).
6. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
7. Of or relating to or produced by or being a gene.
8. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
9. Silver-coated candy bead for decorating cakes.
10. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
11. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
12. A member of the Siouan people of southeastern Mississippi.
13. A resort city in western Florida.
14. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
15. An extended area of land.
21. The act of using.
23. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
30. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
31. Relating to or denoting or characteristic of Catalonia or its inhabitants.
33. A great rani.
35. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
38. In the Catholic church.
39. English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718).
42. Of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages.
43. (trade name) A brand of car polish.
44. A white mineral consisting of magnesium sulphate and potassium chloride.
46. (zoology) Relating to frogs and toads.
47. Used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders.
48. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. The territorial jurisdiction of a bishop.
52. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
58. A New England state.
62. Wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg.
63. United States novelist (1871-1945).
64. Silver-coated candy bead for decorating cakes.
66. An actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression.
68. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
69. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
71. A primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand.
72. A republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971.
73. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
75. Noisy talk.
76. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
79. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
80. A river in western Asia.
81. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
84. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
85. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
90. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
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