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1. A licensed medical practitioner.
4. Singing jazz.
8. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
12. (informal) Elegant and fashionable.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
20. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
21. The nail at the end of a toe.
23. A respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
26. Woody climbers of tropical Asia to Australia.
27. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
28. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
29. Type genus of the Ranidae.
31. A deep prolonged loud noise.
34. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
37. Radiation lying in the ultraviolet range.
38. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. Small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail.
46. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
49. A radioactive transuranic element.
51. Of or relating to or involving an area.
53. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
57. God of wealth and love.
58. Genus of large brown long-billed wading birds found in warm swampy regions of the Western Hemisphere.
60. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
61. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
62. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
63. Native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery.
64. A preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing.
68. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
69. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
71. Very reluctant to give out information.
73. A friendly nation.
76. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
77. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
79. Comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia.
86. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
87. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
91. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
92. A young woman.
93. A female domestic.
94. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
95. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
96. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
97. A slender double-reed instrument.
98. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
99. Late time of life.
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1. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
4. The seventh and last day of the week.
5. Anything that covers or conceals.
6. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
7. A Chinese puzzle consisting of a square divided into seven pieces that must be arranged to match particular designs.
8. (in Scotland) A child.
9. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
10. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
11. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
12. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
13. Edible viscera of a butchered animal.
14. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
15. King of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC).
22. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
25. The peers of a kingdom considered as a group.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
32. Periodic maintenance on a car or machine.
33. A native of ancient Troy.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
40. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
42. An oral antifungal drug (trade name Lamisil) used to treat cases of fungal nail disease.
43. Vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish.
45. Arm again.
47. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
48. Made tough by habitual exposure.
50. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth.
52. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
54. Protective covering made of metal and used in combat.
55. A river in southeastern France.
56. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
59. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
65. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
66. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
67. 1 species.
70. The prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races.
71. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
72. An associate degree in nursing.
74. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
75. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
76. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
78. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
80. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
81. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
82. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite.
83. The income arising from land or other property.
84. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
85. Toward the mouth or oral region.
88. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
89. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
90. A light touch or stroke.
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