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1. Soft lump or unevenness in a yarn.
5. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
9. Highly excited.
13. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
16. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles.
17. An account describing incidents or events.
18. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. (British) Sleep.
20. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
21. Type genus of the Clupeidae.
23. A colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis.
25. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
27. A fit of shivering.
29. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
31. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
37. Wasting of the body during a chronic disease.
40. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
42. The state capital of Alaska.
44. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
45. A heavy precious metallic element.
46. Located inward.
48. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
49. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
51. Out of bed.
53. The longest division of geological time.
54. English writer who is remembered for her biography of Charlotte Bronte (1810-1865).
57. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
58. Speaking a Slavic language.
60. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
61. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
63. Duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females.
67. The act of scanning.
70. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
71. Failure to attend (especially school).
74. Chinese ephedra yielding ephedrine.
77. The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs.
80. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
81. A collection of excerpts from a literary work.
85. Of or related to aplite.
87. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
88. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
89. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
91. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
92. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
93. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
94. Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931).
95. A French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750).
96. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
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1. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
2. Of or relating to or associated with the moon.
3. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
4. A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy.
5. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
6. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
7. A projectile that is fired from a gun.
8. An instance of driving away or warding off.
9. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
10. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
11. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
12. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
13. United States space station.
14. A coniferous tree.
15. The highest point of something.
22. 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.
24. All of the inhabitants of the earth.
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
28. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
32. A deep pan with a handle.
33. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
34. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
35. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
36. A branch of the Tai languages.
38. Of writing or narration.
39. Bell magpies.
41. Of or relating to or consisting of enol.
43. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
47. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
50. A shape that spreads outward.
52. A member of the people in southeastern India (Andhra Pradesh) who speak the Telugu language.
55. A small fragment.
56. A long-playing phonograph record.
59. United States architect (born in 1925).
62. Make or cause to be or to become.
64. A container.
65. Common Indian weaverbird.
66. Cause to be paralyzed and immobile.
68. Of an industry or technology.
69. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
70. A projectile that is fired from a gun.
72. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
73. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
74. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
75. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
76. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
78. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
79. (in writing) See below.
82. 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.
83. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
84. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
86. The cry made by sheep.
90. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
91. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
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