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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
9. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
13. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
16. The cry made by sheep.
17. Gracefully slender.
18. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
22. Very lively and profitable.
24. Glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust.
26. Speaking a Slavic language.
27. Of or resembling algae.
29. Imperial moths.
31. Normal relaxed breathing.
33. Remote and separate physically or socially.
36. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
38. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
41. A knee-length pleated tartan skirt.
42. Female sheldrake.
45. An informal term for a father.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
48. Violent and needless disturbance.
50. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
55. A feeling of intense anger.
56. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
57. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
58. A person who fights duels.
59. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
60. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
61. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
64. Take in solid food.
65. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
67. Making great mental demands.
70. Necessary for relief or supply.
72. English dancer who danced with Rudolf Nureyev (born in 1919).
74. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
75. Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal.
76. annoy continually or chronically.
80. A genus of Percidae.
84. The British system of withholding tax.
87. Possessing material wealth.
88. The content of cognition.
89. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
92. A foolish or nervous laugh.
93. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
94. White grape grown in Europe and California.
96. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
97. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
98. A monocotyledonous grass of the family Gramineae (has only one species).
99. The specified day of the month.
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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Informal terms for a mother.
4. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon.
7. Virus parasitic in bacteria.
8. A cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas.
9. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
10. The month following July and preceding September.
11. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
12. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
13. A motley assortment of things.
14. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
15. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
21. Catch up with and possibly overtake.
23. Being one more than one.
25. A mining town in southern Wales.
28. A person forced to flee from home or country.
30. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
32. The brother of your father or mother.
34. Cabbage butterflies.
35. Relatively small tuna with choice white flesh.
37. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
39. Relating to or characteristic of an apogee.
40. Type genus of the Lacertidae.
43. Heal or recover.
44. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
49. A manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer.
51. Found along western Atlantic coast.
52. Opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken.
53. A proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys.
54. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
62. In a sloppy manner.
63. An item inserted in a written record.
66. Give an education to.
67. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
68. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
69. A biological unit consisting of a nucleus and the body of cytoplasm with which it interacts.
70. A motley assortment of things.
71. The sixth day of the week.
73. A soft silvery metallic element.
77. The 18th letter of the Greek alphabet.
78. Enthusiastic approval.
79. The subject matter of a conversation or discussion.
81. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
82. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
83. A student who studies excessively.
85. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
86. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
87. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
90. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
91. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
95. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
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