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1. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
12. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
16. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
17. Fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines.
18. One thousandth of a second.
19. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
20. A container.
21. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
23. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
25. An elaborate song for solo voice.
27. Membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi.
29. Enthusiastic approval.
30. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
32. Throughout the world.
34. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
36. An informal conversation.
37. Before noon.
39. In or of the month preceding the present one.
46. The agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered.
48. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
51. German hero.
53. Engage or hire for work.
54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. A lizard of the family Agamidae.
57. (informal) Of the highest quality.
58. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
61. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
62. An extreme state of adversity.
65. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
69. Informal terms for a mother.
70. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
71. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
73. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
78. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
82. Speaking a Slavic language.
85. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
86. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
87. A city in Veneto on the River Adige.
89. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
90. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
91. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
93. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
94. The fatty flesh of eel.
95. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
96. A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times.
97. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
98. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
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1. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
2. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
3. Be fully aware or cognizant of.
4. Any high mountain.
5. A red or yellow or brown mineral.
6. A blind god.
7. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
8. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
9. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
10. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
11. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
12. Male cat.
13. An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon.
14. Designating a solution containing 1 mole of solute per 1000 grams of solvent.
15. Like or containing meat.
22. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. A loss of will power.
28. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
31. American filmmaker and comic actor (1935- ).
33. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
35. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.
38. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
40. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
41. A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment.
42. King of Wessex whose military victories made Wessex the most powerful kingdom in England (died in 839).
43. An introductory textbook.
44. Italian poet (1569-1625).
45. A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
47. To fix or set securely or deeply.
49. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
50. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
52. Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire.
55. A state in midwestern United States.
60. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
63. A tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression.
64. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
66. Being ten more than eighty.
67. Censure severely or angrily.
68. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
72. The cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one.
74. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
75. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly.
76. The fourth month of the civil year.
77. Spanish poet and dramatist (1898-1936).
79. (Greek mythology) The god of the underworld in ancient mythology.
80. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
81. A city in northwestern Switzerland.
83. A metallic tapping sound.
84. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
85. An associate degree in nursing.
88. Gone by.
89. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
92. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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