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1. The bill in a restaurant.
4. (informal) Exceptionally good.
8. An explosive device fused to denote under specific conditions.
12. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. A port city on the Caspian Sea that is the capital of Azerbaijan and an important center for oil production.
18. A genus of European owls.
19. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
20. Humorously vulgar.
22. A land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water.
24. A small island.
25. By bad luck.
28. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
30. Squash bugs.
32. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
34. A shape that sags.
39. (Welsh) A warrior god.
40. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
41. A city in southern Finland.
44. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
45. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. Of or pertaining to the adrenal glands or their secretions.
50. A meson produced as the result of high-energy particle collision.
55. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
56. (usually plural) A destructive action.
58. A mistake resulting from inattention.
59. Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200).
60. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
61. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
62. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
64. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
65. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
69. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
71. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
72. Archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival.
75. An associate degree in nursing.
77. With rapid movements.
80. Included seven times in every 19 years.
83. Not correct.
86. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
89. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
90. (music) A short recitative that is melodic but is not an aria.
93. The muscular back part of the shank.
94. A substance added to another to make it less hard.
96. Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.
97. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
98. An industrial plant for smelting.
99. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
2. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
3. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
4. Any of various units of capacity.
5. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
6. A state in northwestern North America.
7. A geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam.
8. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
9. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
10. Tropical Asian starlings.
11. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
12. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
13. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
14. With no effort to conceal.
15. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
21. City in central Iran.
23. Form metals with a swage.
26. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
27. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
29. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
31. Wearing footgear.
33. A genus of herbs of the family Cruciferae.
35. The grasses.
36. Move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees.
37. Small genus of North American herbs having mostly basal leaves and slender racemes of delicate white flowers.
38. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
42. A slender graceful young woman.
43. Assign a new name to.
47. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
49. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
51. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel.
52. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
53. An inhabitant of Lappland.
54. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
57. Italian brandy made from residue of grapes after pressing.
63. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
66. A salesman who travels to call on customers.
67. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
68. Flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams.
70. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
73. Cause to suffer.
74. (of information) Given in confidence or in secret.
76. A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.
78. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
79. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
80. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
81. The twelfth month of the civil year.
82. 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.
84. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
85. Not at all or in no way.
87. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
88. God of love and erotic desire.
91. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
92. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something.
95. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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