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1. Either extremity of something that has length.
4. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
9. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
13. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
16. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
17. Large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail.
18. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
19. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
20. An awkward stupid person.
21. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
22. Domesticated ox having a humped back and long horns and a large dewlap.
23. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
24. United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969).
26. A musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata.
29. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
30. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
31. Water soaked soil.
32. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
34. More than enough in size or scope or capacity.
38. Sailing close to the wind v 1.
41. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
42. An informal term for a father.
44. Type and only genus of the family Esocidae.
45. Being nine more than forty.
46. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
50. A notice of someone's death.
52. A sign of something about to happen.
53. Any plant disease in which the central part of a plant rots (especially in trees).
55. A large round wicker basket (used on farms).
56. Relating to or consisting of runes.
58. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
60. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
61. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
62. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
63. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
68. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
70. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
74. Tag the base runner to get him out.
77. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
80. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
84. Type genus of the Soleidae.
87. The striking of one body against another.
90. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
91. Located in or toward the back or rear.
92. The condition of having no arms.
94. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
96. Turned or twisted toward one side.
97. Severely simple in line or design.
98. Make amends for.
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1. (Greek mythology) God of love.
2. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
3. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
4. The father of your father or mother.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Czech composer who combined folk elements with traditional forms (1841-1904).
7. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
8. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
9. A long fixed look.
10. The content of cognition.
11. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
12. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
13. (Sumerian) Legendary friend of Gilgamish.
14. Witnessed at first hand.
15. Having been read.
25. United States magician (born in Hungary) famous for his ability to escape from chains or handcuffs or straitjackets of padlocked containers (1874-1926).
27. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
28. Tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down.
33. Any stimulating information or event.
35. Widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers.
36. Type genus of the Lobotidae.
37. An opening that permits escape or release.
39. (usually plural) An explosive device that burns with colored flames.
40. Paper that is poisoned or coated with a sticky substance to kill flies.
43. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
47. Someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else.
48. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
49. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
51. Jordan's port.
54. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
57. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
59. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
64. The first month of the year.
65. The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs.
66. An enclosed space.
68. (Sumerian) Legendary friend of Gilgamish.
69. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
72. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
75. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
76. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
78. Smallest merganser and most expert diver.
79. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
81. The basic unit of money in Iran.
82. Beyond what is natural.
83. Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations.
85. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
86. A French abbot.
88. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
89. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
93. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
95. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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