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1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation.
9. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
13. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
16. An accountant certified by the state.
17. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
18. A narrow way or road.
19. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. The brightest star in Cygnus.
22. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
23. An associate degree in applied science.
24. (informal) Exceptionally good.
26. (usually followed by `of') Having capacity or ability.
28. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
29. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
30. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
31. Characteristic of the classical artistic and literary traditions.
33. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. Made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization.
42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
43. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
45. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
46. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
47. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
48. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
50. A boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef.
51. European freshwater fish resembling the roach.
54. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
55. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
56. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
58. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
61. Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter.
63. Relating to or used in or intended for trade or commerce.
64. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
65. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
70. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
71. Deficient in amount or quality or extent.
72. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
73. In bed.
75. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
76. Suggestive of the supernatural.
78. Relating to or derived from or resembling tartar.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
87. Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech).
89. A city in central Illinois on the Illinois River.
90. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
91. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
92. Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324).
94. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
95. Towards the side away from the wind.
96. The general activity of selling.
97. A state of agitated irritation.
98. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. God of death.
4. Used in combination to denote the middle.
5. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
6. Type genus of the Ranidae.
7. A large round wicker basket (used on farms).
8. A portable brazier that burns charcoal and has a grill for cooking.
9. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
10. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
11. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
12. Cause to run off the tracks.
13. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
14. (informal) Very tired.
15. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
25. French film maker influenced by surrealism.
27. Offering little or no hope.
29. Egg-shaped terra-cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes.
32. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
34. In a demure manner.
35. Acting according to certain accepted standards.
36. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
37. Any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers.
39. A trinket or piece of jewelry thought to be a protection against evil.
40. Five-toed pachyderm.
41. Some held in custody.
44. The kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text.
49. Made less brittle by heating and then cooling.
52. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
53. An outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles.
57. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
59. Someone who drives racing cars at high speeds.
60. 1/1000 gram.
62. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
66. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
67. A small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence.
68. An eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies).
69. A list of employees and their salaries.
70. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
74. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
77. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
79. A French abbot.
80. Any competition.
81. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
82. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
83. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
84. A genus of Mustelidae.
85. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
88. The unit of frequency.
93. Being one more than fifty.
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