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1. A federally chartered savings bank.
4. A genus of Ploceidae.
9. A kiln for drying hops.
13. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
18. A tributary of the Rhine.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
21. Any of several purple or white wine grapes used especially for burgundies and champagnes.
22. German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969).
23. Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.
24. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
26. A wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding.
29. A member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley.
31. Poorly stated or described.
33. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
34. Women's underwear.
37. The absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter.
44. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
45. A slender double-reed instrument.
47. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
49. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
51. A structure in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (as in a bascule bridge).
53. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
54. The money risked on a gamble.
55. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
56. A series of things depending on each other as if linked together.
58. Of or related to the pain of angina pectoris.
60. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
62. A descendent or heir.
63. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
66. Being one more than one.
67. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
68. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
70. Of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba.
72. An associate degree in nursing.
75. Lower in esteem.
77. Singing jazz.
83. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
86. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
87. Quandong trees.
89. The compass point that is one point north of due west.
91. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
93. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
94. Gone by.
95. Jordan's port.
96. Avatar of Vishnu.
97. Botfly larva.
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1. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
2. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
3. A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river).
4. Measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube.
5. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
6. Interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by dint of'.
7. A knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain).
8. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
9. A fabric made of silk or a silklike fabric that resembles organdy.
10. Of or relating to or containing or derived from gold.
11. Sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains.
12. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
13. French writer considered by some to be a founder of the detective novel (1832-1873).
14. Largest known toad species.
15. An unofficial association of people or groups.
25. A branch of the Tai languages.
27. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
28. A housing for a radar antenna.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. (Sumerian) God of the air and king of the Sumerian gods.
35. A republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Sea.
36. A member of a North American Indian people who lived in Oregon along the Columbia river and its tributaries in Washington and northern Idaho.
38. (psychology) An urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object.
39. German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed roentgenography (1845-1923).
40. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
41. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
42. A member of a social and cultural elite especially a descendant of an Old New England family.
43. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly.
46. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
48. A member of the Pueblo people living in western New Mexico.
50. A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels.
52. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
57. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
59. Add ions to.
61. Involving or constituting a cause.
64. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
65. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
69. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
71. Spread or daub over.
73. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
74. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
76. Minor or subordinate.
78. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
79. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
80. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
81. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
82. The eighth month of the civil year.
83. Being nine more than ninety.
84. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
85. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.
88. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
90. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
92. Before noon.
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