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1. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
4. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
9. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
13. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
16. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
17. Lower in esteem.
18. (computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
19. An important or influential (and often overbearing) person.
20. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
21. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
22. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
23. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
24. A corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages.
26. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
27. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
28. Being one more than one.
29. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
33. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
35. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
40. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
43. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
45. (dialect) A short straight stick of wood.
46. Type genus of the Pezizaceae.
49. Excluded from use or mention.
51. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
53. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means.
54. Come to pass.
55. A European river.
56. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
57. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
58. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
59. 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble.
61. Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC).
63. Challenge the honesty or credibility of.
65. Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain.
67. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
68. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
69. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
71. Undergo resorption.
76. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
80. Having a common axis.
84. A stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle.
85. United States space station.
87. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
88. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
89. Located on a side.
91. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
92. A human limb.
93. Devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness.
94. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
95. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
96. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
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1. A protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building.
2. Make an etching of.
3. The skin that covers the top of the head.
4. A form of benzodiazepine (trade name Halcion) frequently prescribed as a sleeping pill.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
7. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
8. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
9. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
10. To gain with effort.
11. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
12. (especially of promises or contracts) Having been violated or disregarded.
13. A genus of Indriidae.
14. Medium-sized tubular pasta in short pieces.
15. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
25. Large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork.
28. An inhabitant of ancient Thebes.
30. A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).
31. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
32. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
34. An underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome).
36. A disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions.
37. Hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy).
38. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
39. A great sacrifice.
41. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
42. (chemistry) Relating to or containing the azido group N3.
44. Of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado n 1.
47. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
48. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
50. Chief deity of Zoroastrianism.
52. Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province.
60. A genus of Cathartidae.
62. Follower of Rastafarianism.
64. Identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal.
65. A form of benzodiazepine (trade name Halcion) frequently prescribed as a sleeping pill.
66. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
67. (especially of promises or contracts) Having been violated or disregarded.
70. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
72. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
73. Informal terms for a mother.
74. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
75. The basic unit of money in Albania.
77. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
78. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
79. One thousandth of a second.
81. A city of central China.
82. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
83. Young sheep.
86. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
90. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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