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1. Any cone-shaped artifact.
5. A compact mass.
9. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
13. A pass between mountain peaks.
16. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
18. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
22. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
24. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
26. Ancient Athenian philosopher.
27. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
29. Made of fir or pine.
30. A notable achievement.
33. Poisonous herbs.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. Food for domestic livestock.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. Calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions.
43. With rapid movements.
45. (botany) Relating to or attached to the axis.
49. Latticework used to support climbing plants.
51. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
53. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
54. A quantity of no importance.
55. (of a roof) Constructed with a single slope on each side of the ridge supported at the end by a gable or vertical triangular portion of an end wall.
57. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
58. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
59. High status importance owing to marked superiority.
61. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
64. withdraw from an organization or communion.
65. Mother goddess.
66. Little known Kamarupan languages.
67. Any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body.
68. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
70. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
74. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
77. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
78. Not in a state of sleep.
80. Having an oblique or slanted direction.
84. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
87. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
89. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
91. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
92. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
93. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
94. Denuded of leaves.
95. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
96. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
97. (informal) Exceptionally good.
98. A primeval personification of air and breath.
99. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
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1. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
2. Using speech rather than writing.
3. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
4. Fill with high spirits.
5. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
6. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
7. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
8. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
9. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
10. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
11. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
12. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
13. A mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text.
14. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
15. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle.
21. Affected by or full of grief or woe.
23. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
25. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
28. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
31. Bearing the name of a particular designer.
32. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
34. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
36. Having the color of caramel.
38. A system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year.
41. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
42. Any of the celestial bodies (other than comets or satellites) that revolve around the sun in the solar system.
44. Tropical American trees.
46. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
47. Hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy).
48. Stain (furniture) black to make it look like ebony.
50. An enclosed space.
52. A member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico.
56. Make difficult to perceive by sight.
60. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
62. Morally bad or wrong.
63. A complex inorganic compound that contains ammonia molecules.
69. Doing arduous or unpleasant work.
71. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
72. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
73. A shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot.
75. Two times.
76. Jordan's port.
79. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
80. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
81. The muscular back part of the shank.
82. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
83. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
85. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
86. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
88. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
90. A strong emotion.
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