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1. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
5. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
9. The probability of a specified outcome.
13. A sheath worn to protect a finger.
16. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
17. The sixth month of the civil year.
18. Meat from a calf.
19. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
20. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
21. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.
23. Used of old persons or old trees.
25. United States chemist (1839-1903).
27. A source of danger.
28. A substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture).
29. Having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities.
31. (of a woman's body) Having a large bosom and pleasing curves.
34. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
36. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
39. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
43. The twelfth month of the civil year.
45. How long something has existed.
46. Prostrate woody South American herb with white tubular flowers often tinged with blue or rose.
48. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known a Iraq.
51. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
52. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
53. A deep bow.
55. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
56. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
58. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
59. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
60. A concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court).
64. Lower in esteem.
66. Any location known for vice and corruption.
69. Pale yellow seedless grape used for raisins and wine.
71. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
72. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
74. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
76. Any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds.
79. A hormone secreted by the pancreas.
83. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
84. Relating to or near the radius.
87. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
88. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
89. Moth whose larvae are flour moths.
91. A notable achievement.
92. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
93. A protective covering over or beside a wheel to protect the upper part of a vehicle from splashes of mud.
94. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Male red deer.
2. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
3. (Old Testament) A son of Jacob and forefather of one of the tribes of Israel.
4. Being nine more than forty.
5. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
6. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
7. Medicine consisting of a tablet (trade name Carafate) used to treat peptic ulcers.
8. A state in southwestern United States.
9. Draw more money from than is available.
10. A Mid-Atlantic state.
11. 10 grams.
12. Ice cream served with a topping.
13. Candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers.
14. A viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person.
15. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
22. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
24. Medieval artillery used during sieges.
26. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
30. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
32. A persistent but subordinate motif.
33. A large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm.
35. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
37. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
41. Any plant of the genus Helianthemum.
42. An elastic synthetic fabric.
44. Not having been read.
47. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
49. Small wooden bat with a flat surface.
50. Son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil.
54. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
57. Shaped like a ring.
61. Employed in accomplishing something.
62. Of or relating to or denoting numbers.
63. Witty or joking.
64. A Mid-Atlantic state.
65. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
66. Candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers.
67. Alloy of copper and tin and zinc.
68. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
70. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
73. Type genus of Cycadaceae.
75. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
77. (British) A simple board game in which players move counters according to the throw of dice.
78. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
80. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
81. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
82. A quantity of no importance.
85. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
86. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
87. A gully that is shallower than a ravine.
90. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
91. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
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