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1. The money risked on a gamble.
4. Austrian painter influenced by art nouveau (1862-1918).
9. A subdivision of a particular kind of thing.
13. An enclosed space.
16. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
17. A long seat for more than one person.
18. Heal or recover.
19. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
20. Lacking sensation.
22. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
25. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
27. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed.
28. A genus of Bothidae.
30. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
33. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
37. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
38. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
42. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
45. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
48. A genus of Pyralidae.
49. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.
51. Boas and pythons.
54. A dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta.
55. Estrangement from god.
56. A former Turkish term of respect.
57. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
59. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
61. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
64. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
68. Being such by origin.
70. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
72. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
75. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
77. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
78. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
79. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
82. Swiss mathematician (1707-1783).
86. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
90. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
91. Lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy.
92. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
94. Being one more than six.
95. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
96. Dirty and disorderly.
97. Causing a dull and steady pain.
98. A doctor's degree in education.
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1. A city in western Germany on the Rhine River.
2. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
3. Male cat.
4. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
5. The basic unit of money in Albania.
6. Any plant of the genus Inula.
7. United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909).
8. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
9. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
10. An affirmative.
11. The vast grassy plains of northern Argentina.
12. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
13. An archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland.
14. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
15. Ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side.
21. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
23. A state in New England.
24. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
26. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
29. Wood of a sumac.
31. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
32. Soft suede glove leather from goatskin.
34. A cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils.
35. Of or relating an apse.
36. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
39. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. A French abbot.
41. A historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain.
43. Rod-shaped motile bacteria that attack plants.
44. Caused to show discomposure.
46. Any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles.
47. A crisp smooth lustrous fabric.
50. Dutch physicist honored for his research on the influence of magnetism on radiation which showed that light is radiated by the motion of charged particles in an atom (1865-1943).
52. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
53. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
58. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
60. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
62. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
63. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
65. The eleventh month of the civil year.
66. By law.
67. Prior to a specified or implied time.
69. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
71. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
73. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
74. Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
76. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
80. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
81. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
83. Actually being performed (or--for the audience--present) at the time of viewing.
84. A town in north central Oklahoma.
85. A sudden short attack.
87. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
88. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
89. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
93. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
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