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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. English monk and scholar (672-735).
9. Marked by firm determination or resolution.
13. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
16. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
17. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
18. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
19. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
20. Marked by cairns.
22. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
24. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
25. A violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family.
26. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
29. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
30. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
31. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
33. A city of central China.
35. (psychophysics) The difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected.
37. The Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life.
40. Being nine more than ninety.
41. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
44. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
46. Resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity.
47. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
51. A small slip noose made with seizing.
53. Coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position.
55. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
56. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
58. A city in Indonesia.
60. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
61. An honorary degree in science.
63. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
64. Gone by.
65. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
67. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
71. Completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose.
73. Used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders.
76. The cry made by sheep.
78. Any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida.
82. Herbs of Mediterranean to central Asia cultivated for their flowers.
87. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
88. A man-made object taken as a whole.
91. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
92. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
93. Occurring at or dependent on a particular season.
94. A primeval personification of air and breath.
95. An informal term for a father.
96. A flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas.
97. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
2. A small vessel for travel on water.
3. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
4. Large and brightly colored handkerchief.
5. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
6. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
7. A Mid-Atlantic state.
8. At or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane.
9. Of hair color.
10. An informal debt instrument.
11. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
12. A master's degree in business.
13. Durable fragrant wood.
14. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
15. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
21. Shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus.
23. Dry red table wine from the Rioja region of northern Spain.
27. A natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure.
28. A Christian recluse.
32. A soft silvery metallic element.
34. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
36. Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill.
38. The god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami.
39. An analgesic for mild pain.
42. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
43. Set down according to a plan.
45. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
48. Regret strongly.
49. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
50. Something that is a source of danger.
52. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
54. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
57. At or constituting a border or edge.
59. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
62. Round gourd of the calabash tree.
66. Any plant or flower of the genus Lobelia.
67. Large and brightly colored handkerchief.
68. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
69. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
70. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
71. Durable fragrant wood.
72. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
74. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).
75. Disclosing information or giving evidence about another.
76. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
77. Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa.
78. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
79. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
80. The brightest star in Cygnus.
81. A particular environment or walk of life.
83. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
84. With no effort to conceal.
85. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
86. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
89. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
90. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
91. Half the width of an em.
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