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1. Standard temperature and pressure.
4. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
9. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
16. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
17. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
18. A narrow way or road.
19. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
20. A master's degree in business.
21. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
22. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
23. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
24. (of language) Transparently clear.
26. A plumbing fixture (usually attached to the wall) used by men to urinate.
29. Of or belonging to an enemy.
31. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
34. A distinct and often subordinate group within a group.
41. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
42. (Greek mythology) A giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis.
46. Goods or money obtained illegally.
47. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
48. Reduce the edge or violence of.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
53. In 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants.
55. (British) A simple board game in which players move counters according to the throw of dice.
56. The compass point midway between north and west.
57. Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units.
59. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
60. Stalk of a moss capsule.
62. The second day of the week.
63. Both sexes are brightly colored.
66. Characteristic of or befitting a seaman.
68. City in eastern Belgium.
69. A visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal.
72. A large quantity of written matter.
73. A town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron.
75. Being one more than fifty.
76. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
77. Full of zest or vigor.
78. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
81. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
83. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
86. Overgrown with ivy.
88. Lower in esteem.
92. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
95. The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet.
96. Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.
97. An Eskimo hut.
98. A French abbot.
100. An enclosed space.
101. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
102. A person with unusual powers of foresight.
103. A small cake leavened with yeast.
104. A transuranic element.
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1. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
2. Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands.
3. An innocuous or inert medication.
4. Steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. A Bantu language spoken in western Kenya.
7. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
8. Any of the openings to the nasal cavities that allow air to flow through the cavities to the pharynx.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
11. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
12. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
13. A quantity of no importance.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
25. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
27. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
28. A leisurely walk (usually in some public place).
30. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
32. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
33. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
35. Not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention.
36. Australian rat kangaroos.
37. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
38. Tropical plant having thick hairy somewhat toothed leaves and solitary or clustered yellow to scarlet flowers.
39. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine).
40. The semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning.
43. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
44. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
45. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
49. A murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed.
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. Call forth.
54. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
58. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
61. Before noon.
64. A small wave on the surface of a liquid.
65. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
67. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
70. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people.
71. A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters.
74. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
79. The sacred writings of the Christian religion.
80. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
81. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
82. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
84. Type genus of the Amiidae.
85. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
87. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
89. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
90. The complete duration of something.
91. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
93. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
94. How long something has existed.
99. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
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