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1. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
4. Out of bed.
9. A fractional monetary unit in Bahrain and Iraq and Jordan and Kuwait and Southern Yemen and Yemen.
13. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
16. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
17. Wood of a larch tree.
18. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
19. Denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units.
20. The basic unit of money in Iran.
22. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
23. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. Famous chief of the Ottawa who led an unsuccessful rebellion against the British (1715-1769).
28. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
29. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
31. King of Wessex whose military victories made Wessex the most powerful kingdom in England (died in 839).
33. British informal term.
35. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
37. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
43. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
47. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
48. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
49. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
51. Late time of life.
54. Dignified manner or conduct.
55. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
56. United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935).
58. An aromatic exudate from the mastic tree.
60. Lower in esteem.
62. Of or like a feeble old woman.
63. Metal shackles.
64. United States sculptor (born in 1924).
65. Something hard to endure.
68. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
69. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
70. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
72. Identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal.
76. A territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine.
78. A lack of vitality.
82. Old-fashioned and out of date.
86. Situated at or extending to the side.
88. Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again.
89. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
90. Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness.
92. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
93. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
94. Enlarged prostate.
95. Any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream.
96. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
97. Any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin.
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1. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
2. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
3. Jordan's port.
4. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
5. The chance to speak.
6. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
7. (Greek mythology) The rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods.
8. The anterior tip at the end of the suture of the nasal bones.
9. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
10. The content of cognition.
11. The act of taking something from someone unlawfully.
12. A state in north central United States.
13. Any compound containing the group -C=NOH.
14. The basic unit of money in Yemen.
15. Being one more than seven.
21. Immature of its kind.
24. 1 species.
27. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
30. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
32. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
34. A public promotion of some product or service.
36. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.
38. Genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas.
39. King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959).
40. A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around.
41. Antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatening arrhythmias but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients.
42. Arranged in or consisting of laminae.
44. The quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time.
45. A degenerate neutron star.
46. Resembling steel as in hardness.
50. Type genus of the Anatidae.
52. A river in southeastern France.
53. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
57. An antibiotic (trade name Erythrocin or E-Mycin or Ethril or Ilosone or Pediamycin) obtained from the actinomycete Streptomyces erythreus.
59. A yellow quartz.
61. Having or resembling a beak.
66. Important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop.
67. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
68. A state in north central United States.
71. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
73. The first canonical hour.
74. Someone who rants and raves.
75. A hidden drawback.
77. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
79. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
80. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
81. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
83. Waterproofed canvas.
84. A small amount of residue.
85. A thin strip (wood or metal).
87. Either extremity of something that has length.
91. Not out.
92. In operation or operational.
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