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1. A bachelor's degree in theology.
4. Limbless scaly elongate reptile.
9. A doctor's degree in music.
13. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
16. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
17. Edge tool used in shaving.
18. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
19. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
20. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
22. A river in the east central United States.
24. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
26. The food served and eaten at one time.
27. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine).
29. Toward the mouth or oral region.
30. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
32. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
33. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
35. A disreputable vagrant.
37. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
39. A physiological need to drink.
43. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
48. (medicine) Having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course.
49. American Revolutionary leader from Virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights (1725-1792).
52. A pair of people who live together.
53. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
55. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
56. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
57. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
58. The god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami.
60. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
61. Be earlier in time.
63. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
65. The fatty flesh of eel.
66. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
67. Half the width of an em.
70. A farewell remark.
72. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
75. To a small degree or extent.
79. Genus of showy plants of western North America having palmate leaves and variously colored racemose flowers.
82. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
87. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
88. A hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever.
90. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
91. A decree that prohibits something.
92. A wound made by cutting.
94. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
95. A man who courts a woman.
96. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
97. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
98. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
99. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
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1. The thick short innermost digit of the forelimb.
2. Small genus of South American trees yielding latex.
3. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
4. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
5. The back side of the neck.
6. An obsolete name for nitrogen.
7. A former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission.
8. Become ground down or deteriorate.
9. Made of fir or pine.
10. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
11. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
12. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
13. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
14. Type genus of the Ranidae.
15. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
21. A liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent.
23. A muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range.
25. Former name for the order Crocodylia.
28. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. Adopted in order to deceive.
36. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
38. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
40. A family of dicotyledonous plants of order Geraniales.
41. A headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right.
42. A small tessera.
44. Gradually narrowed toward a point.
45. The closing section of a musical composition.
46. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
47. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
50. A rosid dicot genus that includes moon carrots.
51. A fraudulent business scheme.
54. The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal).
59. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
62. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
64. An associate degree in nursing.
68. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
69. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
70. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
71. The amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full.
72. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
73. A ridge that forms a seam between two parts.
74. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
76. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
77. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
78. Australian clover fern.
80. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
81. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
83. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
84. The act of drawing or hauling something.
85. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
86. A genus of Mustelidae.
89. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
93. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
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