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1. A common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete.
5. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
9. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
13. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
16. A long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic.
17. Toward the mouth or oral region.
18. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
19. A city in the European part of Russia.
20. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
21. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
22. Plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe.
23. A light touch or stroke.
24. The longest river of Asia.
26. A person who lacks good judgment.
28. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
30. An African amulet.
31. (slang) A batch of things that go together.
35. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
38. Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people).
39. A city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea.
43. South African term for `boss'.
44. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
46. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
49. A state in southeastern United States.
50. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
52. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..
53. A city in Veneto.
54. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
55. Dye with a color.
57. An affirmative.
59. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
60. A kiln used to reduce naturally occuring forms of calcium carbonate to lime.
65. Any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family.
66. Constituting the undiminished entirety.
69. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
70. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
71. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
73. A genus of Mustelidae.
75. A large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa.
77. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
78. The act of scanning.
81. Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction.
82. Obvious and dull.
86. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
90. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
91. Complacently or inanely foolish.
92. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
94. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
95. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
96. (photography) "color film".
97. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
98. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
99. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
2. The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
3. Humble request for help.
4. Dyed with henna.
5. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
6. An honorary arts degree.
7. An island of central Hawaii.
8. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
9. An arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present.
10. A shed containing a number of beehives.
11. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
12. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
13. Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism.
14. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
15. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
25. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
27. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
29. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
32. Of or relating to Hegel or his dialectic philosophy.
33. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
34. (informal) Destroyed or killed.
36. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
37. Variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges.
40. Of or pertaining to a number system having 8 as its base.
41. Italian poet (1569-1625).
42. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting.
45. English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika.
47. Small genus of delicate mossy bog plants having white or violet flowers.
48. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
51. Of or relating to the Iberian peninsula or its inhabitants.
56. Of or relating to a hair.
58. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
61. The square of a body of any size of type.
62. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
63. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
64. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
67. After a negative statement used to indicate that the next statement is similarly negative.
68. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
72. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
74. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
76. (music) A notation written at the beginning or end of a passage that is to be repeated.
79. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
80. An elaborate song for solo voice.
83. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
84. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
85. A Russian river.
87. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
88. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
89. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
93. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
94. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
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