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1. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
4. A quantity of no importance.
8. A cosmetic preparation used by women in Egypt and Arabia to darken the edges of their eyelids.
12. (of molten metal or glass) Formed by pouring or pressing into a mold n 1.
16. Water frozen in the solid state.
17. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
18. On or toward the lee.
19. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
20. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
22. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
24. A caustic substance (Ca(OH)2) produced by heating limestone.
25. A unit of resistance equal to one million ohms.
27. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
29. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
32. Rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force, as on a wave.
35. Young of domestic cattle.
38. An athlete who plays basketball.
39. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
41. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
45. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
46. Necrotic tissue.
49. Used of a single unit or thing.
50. A local computer network for communication between computers.
52. In a manner lacking interest or vitality.
55. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
57. A resident of Iowa.
58. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
59. The act of gambling.
61. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
62. An associate degree in nursing.
64. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
66. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
67. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
71. A branch of the Tai languages.
73. A Mid-Atlantic state.
74. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
76. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
78. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
82. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
86. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
87. An artificial language.
91. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
92. A fraudulent business scheme.
93. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
95. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
96. Preferred above all others and treated with partiality.
97. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
98. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
99. Any loose flowing garment.
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1. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
2. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
3. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
4. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
5. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
6. A light touch or stroke.
7. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
8. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
9. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
10. A German man.
11. Towards the side away from the wind.
12. Rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above 1 basal leaf.
13. Moving quickly and lightly.
14. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
15. A general direction in which something tends to move.
21. 3rd largest island in the world.
23. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite.
26. A blind god.
28. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
30. Disposed of as useless.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. Any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod.
34. Sweetened milk or cream mixed with eggs and usually alcoholic liquor.
36. (informal) The application of maximum thrust.
37. Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease).
40. Growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal.
42. French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in 397).
43. (zoology) Relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida.
44. Remove the scales from.
47. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
48. Take by theft.
51. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
53. The cry made by sheep.
54. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
56. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
60. An informal term for a father.
63. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
65. An enclosed space.
68. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
69. United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951).
70. Chief port of Yemen.
72. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
75. Not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality.
77. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
78. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
79. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
80. God of love and erotic desire.
81. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
83. The sixth month of the civil year.
84. An edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter).
85. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
88. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
89. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
90. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
94. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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