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1. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
5. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
9. South African term for `boss'.
13. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
16. The basic unit of money in Iran.
17. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
18. The highest level or degree attainable.
19. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
20. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
21. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
22. A public act of violence by an unruly mob.
23. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
24. Tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes.
25. Make or become free of frost or ice.
28. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
30. A republic on the western coast of Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
33. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
36. Type genus of the Lacertidae.
40. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
41. Relating to abdominal delivery.
44. A historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain.
45. annoy continually or chronically.
46. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion.
47. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
48. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
49. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
52. (Roman mythology) God of love.
54. Pass by, as of time.
57. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
59. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
60. Of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization.
62. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
64. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
65. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
67. Stain (furniture) black to make it look like ebony.
70. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
73. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
74. The brightest star in Virgo.
76. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
78. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
80. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
83. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
87. North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes.
89. Heavy fabric that resembles velvet.
91. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
92. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
93. An oil port in southern Iraq.
95. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
96. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
97. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
98. Common black European thrush.
99. An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.
100. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
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1. A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around.
2. A genus of Mustelidae.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. Relatively small tuna with choice white flesh.
5. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
6. A quantity of no importance.
7. Not divisible by two.
8. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
9. Of or relating to or containing barium.
10. A needle-like part or structure of a plant or animal or crystal.
11. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
12. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
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.
26. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
27. The sacred city of Lamaism.
29. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
31. Coextensive with the family Oleaceae.
32. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
34. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
35. An island in the Persian Gulf.
37. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
38. Of or relating to the African country of Togo or its people.
39. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
42. Female ruff v 1.
43. Register formally.
50. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
51. A numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number.
53. An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.
55. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
56. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
58. Two items of the same kind.
61. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
63. Expressive of contempt.
66. That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency.
67. Not divisible by two.
68. The cry made by sheep.
69. (nautical) Fitted or equipped with necessary rigging (sails and shrouds and stays etc).
71. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
72. Nocturnal wildcat of Central and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat.
75. A cartoon character created by Walt Disney.
76. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
77. Being in competition.
79. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
81. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
82. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
84. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
85. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
86. A vessel that carries passengers or freight v 1.
88. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
90. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
94. That is to say.
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