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1. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
4. Wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh.
8. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
12. An elaborate song for solo voice.
16. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
17. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
18. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
19. A framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame.
20. Situated away from an area's coast or border.
22. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
24. An Eskimo hut.
25. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
28. A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck.
31. A humorous anecdote or remark.
34. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
38. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
41. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. Engage or hire for work.
45. Used especially of machinery.
47. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
49. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
50. The skin that covers the top of the head.
52. (electricity) Pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action.
55. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ireland or its people.
58. Look at with amorous intentions.
59. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
60. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
61. A person holding a fief.
62. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
63. Unknown god.
65. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
67. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
71. Emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid).
73. Hindu sacred text instructing the Brahmins to perform the Vedic rituals.
75. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
76. An exhibition of cowboy skills.
77. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
81. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
85. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
86. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
89. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
91. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
92. A former French coin of low denomination.
93. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
94. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
95. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
96. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
97. An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
98. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
99. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. Baby bed with high sides.
2. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
3. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
5. A boy or man.
6. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
7. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
8. The act of preventing the opposition from scoring (in sports).
9. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
10. A writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
13. A motley assortment of things.
14. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
15. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
21. Small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall.
23. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
26. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
27. Made by polymerizing butadiene.
29. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
30. An associate degree in nursing.
32. (biology) Having or resembling wings.
33. A promise.
35. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
36. Of or relating to a hair.
37. In a faddish manner.
39. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
40. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
42. A poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy.
43. Of wines, fruit, cheeses.
46. A salesman who travels to call on customers.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
51. Of or in or belonging to the cavity of the abdomen.
53. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
54. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
56. Any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway.
57. Detected or perceived by the sense of hearing.
64. Protected by armor (used of persons or things military).
65. A boy or man.
66. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
68. Tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain.
69. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
70. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
72. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
74. The rotating armature of a motor or generator.
78. The general activity of selling.
79. The act of catching an object with the hands.
80. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
82. A quantity of no importance.
83. Very dark black.
84. An informal term for a father.
87. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
88. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
90. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
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