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1. (superlative of `good') Having the most positive qualities.
5. The act of flipping a coin.
9. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
13. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
16. Belonging to some prior time.
17. The act of drawing or hauling something.
18. The back side of the neck.
19. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
20. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
21. The front part of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen.
23. Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement.
25. A promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books).
27. Austrian writer (1881-1942).
29. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
30. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
32. Regional and archaic.
34. An informal term for a father.
36. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
39. A city in the northern panhandle of Texas.
43. Of southern Europe.
45. Filled with fear or apprehension.
48. French impressionist painter (1841-1919).
49. The short weak cry of a young bird.
52. An East Indian sailor.
54. A low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water.
55. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
56. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
57. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
59. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
60. The electrode in a transistor where electrons originate.
62. Talk pompously.
65. Get something.
66. A jurist who interprets Muslim law.
67. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
68. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
71. A small cake leavened with yeast.
74. Rig used in drilling for oil or gas.
76. A white trivalent metallic element.
80. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
83. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
85. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
88. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
91. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
94. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
95. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
96. A loose dressing gown for women.
97. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
98. The number of opening per inch of a screen.
99. Someone who occupation is preaching the gospel.
100. A Russian river.
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1. An explosive device fused to denote under specific conditions.
2. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
3. Diving ducks of North America having a bluish-gray bill.
4. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
5. A bachelor's degree in theology.
6. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
7. A city in northeastern Egypt at the head of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern end of the Suez Canal.
8. Basically shredded cabbage.
9. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
10. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
11. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
12. Put off to later.
13. Made of fir or pine.
14. A member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia.
15. One thousandth of a second.
22. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
24. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine).
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
31. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. Used of persons.
37. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.
38. Using speech rather than writing.
40. Be about.
41. Being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something.
42. Addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous).
44. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
46. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
47. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
50. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
51. Inspiring mixed contempt and pity.
53. Deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail.
58. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
61. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
63. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
64. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
69. The rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written).
70. Extremely robust.
72. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
73. Someone whose employment involves carrying something.
75. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
77. A semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum.
78. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
79. Relating to or resembling a cone.
81. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
82. Jordan's port.
84. (Greek mythology) God of love.
86. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
87. Being on the left side.
89. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
90. Not widely known.
92. Former measure of the US economy.
93. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
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