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1. The bill in a restaurant.
4. A magician or sorcerer of ancient times.
9. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
13. Seed of a pea plant.
16. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
17. A colorless gas (O3) soluble in alkalis and cold water.
18. A genus of Mustelidae.
19. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
20. A member of a monotheistic sect of Zoroastrian origin.
22. Depressing in character or appearance.
24. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
25. The residue that remains when something is burned.
26. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
27. United States dancer and pioneer of modern dance (1878-1927).
29. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
31. Relating to or included in the zodiac.
33. A narrow republic surrounded by Senegal in West Africa.
35. Full of germs or pathological microorganisms.
37. A town in central Belgium.
40. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
45. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
46. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
47. Plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds.
50. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
51. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
53. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
54. An associate degree in nursing.
55. Not fake or counterfeit.
57. Reject with contempt.
58. With self-possession (especially in times of stress).
61. The sign language used in the United States.
62. Jordan's port.
63. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
64. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
69. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
71. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
73. Distributed or spread over a considerable extent.
78. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
80. A town in north central Wisconsin.
81. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
86. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
87. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
89. Type genus of the Anhimidae.
91. Being nothing more than specified.
92. (of drugs e.g.) Able to excite or stimulate.
94. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
95. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
96. Tighten one's belt.
97. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
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1. A yellow quartz.
2. 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.
3. Having the head uncovered.
4. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
5. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
6. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
7. Noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline.
8. Witnessed at first hand.
9. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
10. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
13. The title of the ancient Egyptian kings.
14. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. A man of rank in the ancien regime.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
30. Any of several seeds that yield oil.
32. Baby bed with high sides.
34. Battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943).
36. Hold back.
38. Visit famous or interesting sights.
39. Of or pertaining to tactics.
41. Pass by, as of time.
42. Type and sole genus of the family Albulidae.
43. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
44. Soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
48. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
49. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
52. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
56. A fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire.
59. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
60. A public promotion of some product or service.
65. The Israeli unicameral parliament.
66. A bad person who entices others into error or wrong-doing.
67. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
68. A genus of Nymphalidae.
69. The title of the ancient Egyptian kings.
70. The cry made by sheep.
72. One thousand grams.
74. A manicurist who trims the fingernails.
75. Father of the storm gods Marut.
76. Upright in position or posture.
77. (Norse mythology) The chief race of gods living at Asgard.
79. The event of dying or departure from life.
82. A door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall.
83. The mother of your father or mother.
84. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
85. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
88. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
90. Water frozen in the solid state.
93. A state in southeastern United States.
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