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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
5. Slightly open.
9. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
13. An (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown.
16. God of love and erotic desire.
17. Fallow deer.
18. A state in the western United States.
19. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
20. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
21. (chemistry) Being or containing an acid.
22. A sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease.
24. Hoary alyssum.
26. Iranian religious leader of the Shiites.
27. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
30. A potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine.
31. A cgs unit of work or energy.
32. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
34. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
35. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
37. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
38. A fine strong sheer silky fabric made of silk or rayon or nylon.
43. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
47. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
49. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
50. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
51. A native or inhabitant of Bhutan.
53. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
55. A medium for oil-paints.
58. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
59. Engage or hire for work.
60. The state that precedes vomiting.
61. A state in New England.
62. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
63. Type genus of the Anatidae.
64. By bad luck.
65. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
68. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
70. The event of being born.
73. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
75. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
76. Someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others.
80. A deep bow.
85. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
86. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
87. A genus of Platalea.
89. A ghostly appearing figure.
91. A human limb.
93. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
95. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
96. An affirmative.
97. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
98. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
99. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Jordan's port.
2. German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia (1868-1934).
3. Punish with an arbitrary penalty.
4. Damaged by blows or hard usage.
5. The sixth month of the civil year.
6. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943).
7. Type genus of the Amiidae.
8. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
9. Perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries.
10. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
11. A loose skirt consisting of brightly colored fabric wrapped around the body.
12. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
13. A nettle yielding fiber resembling flax.
14. All the animal life in a particular region.
15. Retinal protein formed by the action of light on rhodopsin.
23. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
25. At or constituting a border or edge.
28. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
29. A hole (usually with a flush cover) through which a person can gain access to an underground structure.
33. Of or relating to or characteristic of Antigua or its people.
36. Mites and ticks.
39. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
40. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
41. Soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees.
42. A member of the Uniat Church.
44. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
45. A genus of Lamnidae.
46. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
48. A ballroom dance of Latin-American origin.
52. All of the inhabitants of the earth.
54. Resembling a beast.
56. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
57. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
66. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
67. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
68. A nettle yielding fiber resembling flax.
69. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
71. Strike with a flat object.
72. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
74. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
77. (prefix) Within.
78. Of inferior or mixed breed.
79. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
81. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
82. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
83. An informal term for a father.
84. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
88. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
90. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
92. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
94. A state in midwestern United States.
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