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1. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
4. Type genus of the Anatidae.
8. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
12. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
16. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
17. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
18. (quantifier used with mass nouns) Great in quantity or degree or extent.
19. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
20. Used in combination to denote the middle.
21. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
23. A state of confusion and disorderliness.
24. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
26. Someone who admires a young woman.
27. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
29. Extremely robust.
31. Employed in accomplishing something.
32. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
33. A widely distributed rock-forming feldspar.
35. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
37. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
38. A white trivalent metallic element.
42. A town in central Belgium.
46. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
48. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
50. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
51. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
52. Hard as granite.
55. (Irish) The sea personified.
56. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
57. Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning.
59. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
60. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
61. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
63. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
67. United States photographer remembered for her portraits of rural workers during the Depression (1895-1965).
68. An associate degree in nursing.
69. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
71. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
74. A boy or man.
75. A Russian dish made with patties of ground meat (mixed with onions and bread and milk) and served with a sauce of sour cream.
79. A fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt by Scottish Highlanders.
82. Suggestive of the supernatural.
84. A star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process.
85. United States baseball player (born 1925).
86. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
89. (Greek mythology) The Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology.
91. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
92. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
94. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
95. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
96. Fallow deer.
97. A group of countries in special alliance.
98. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
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1. Young sheep.
2. English essayist (1775-1834).
3. The vein in the center of a leaf.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. A tranquilizer (trade name Navane) used to treat schizophrenia.
6. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
7. Of or producing or containing serum.
8. A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers).
9. A reward or payment.
10. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
11. The wife of a sheik.
12. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
13. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
14. A contestant who loses the contest.
15. Shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg.
22. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
25. 8th and most important avatar of Vishnu.
28. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
30. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
34. An alkalating agent (trade name Leukeran) used to treat some kinds of cancer.
36. A form of communism developed in China by Mao Zedong.
39. A short moral story (often with animal characters).
40. Small family of usually tropical butterflies.
41. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
43. A person who owns or operates oil wells.
44. A sport in which participants must travel on skis.
45. A violent denunciation.
47. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
49. An island of central Hawaii.
53. English translator and Protestant martyr.
54. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
58. A crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins.
62. An indistinct shapeless form.
64. Of or relating to the Iberian peninsula or its inhabitants.
65. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
66. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. Of or relating to or near the nares.
73. A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof.
76. Constituting the full quantity or extent.
77. A small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant.
78. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
80. An excavation that is (usually) filled with water.
81. A quantity of no importance.
83. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
87. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
88. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
90. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
93. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
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