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1. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
5. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
9. Any competition.
13. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
16. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
17. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
18. By bad luck.
19. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
20. Spherical in shape.
22. Deliberately vague or ambiguous.
24. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
25. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
28. A port town on the Atlantic coast of Portugal southeast of Lisbon.
32. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944).
35. The sport of gliding on skates.
38. Serving as or forming a base.
41. Included seven times in every 19 years.
43. An English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718).
46. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
48. A form of address for a man.
49. A heavenly place (peaceful and beautiful) where those who are favored by the gods can go when they die.
51. Used especially of fruits.
55. Productive work (especially physical work done for wages).
56. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
58. A family of Amerindian languages spoken in California.
59. A teeming multitude.
60. Of legislation.
61. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
62. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
63. A student who studies excessively.
64. Epithet of Siva.
69. A state in New England.
70. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
73. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
76. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
78. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
83. Of or relating to alga.
86. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
88. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
90. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
91. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
92. Very dark black.
94. Again but in a new or different way.
95. The seed of the cereal grass.
96. A river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea.
97. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
98. Not easy.
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1. (Roman mythology) Goddess of agriculture.
2. A positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device.
3. An unaccompanied choral composition with sacred lyrics.
4. Down feather of young birds.
5. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
6. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
7. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
9. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
10. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
11. A warning against certain acts.
12. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
13. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
14. Relating to or accompanying birth.
15. Squash bugs.
21. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
23. An honorary arts degree.
26. Speaking a Slavic language.
27. In or to a place that is lower.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. Any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod.
31. Your friends and acquaintances.
34. (prefix) Half or partial.
36. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
37. French mathematician who described the conditions for solving polynomial equations.
39. Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement.
40. Any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body.
42. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
44. Annual having the stem beset with curved prickles.
45. Genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas.
47. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
50. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
52. Of or relating to or resembling a condyle.
53. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
54. United States golfer who won many major golf tournaments (born in 1912).
57. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose.
66. The basic unit of money in Iran.
67. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
68. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
69. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
71. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
72. Any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain.
74. Forming viscous or glutinous threads.
75. An iconic mental representation.
77. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
79. The state of owing money.
80. A city of central China.
81. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
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.
84. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
85. Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness.
87. A column of light (as from a beacon).
89. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
93. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
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