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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. A genus of Indriidae.
9. The act of scanning.
13. A federally chartered savings bank.
16. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
17. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
18. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
19. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
20. An unforeseen obstacle.
21. A useful or valuable quality.
22. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
26. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
28. A short composition for a solo instrument.
29. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
30. Includes some plants usually placed in e.g. genus Dicksonia.
33. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
35. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
40. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
43. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
46. Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
48. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
49. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
51. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
52. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
55. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
56. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
60. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
61. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
63. English monk and scholar (672-735).
64. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
65. Heal or recover.
66. Satisfy (thirst).
68. A public promotion of some product or service.
70. Without qualification.
72. Chief port of Yemen.
75. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
77. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
78. Having three dimensions.
83. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
86. By bad luck.
90. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
92. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
94. (Scottish) A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains).
95. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
96. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
97. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
98. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
3. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. An ACE inhibitor (trade name Vasotec) that blocks the formation of angiotensin in the kidney and so results in vasodilation.
6. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
7. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
8. The basic unit of money in Peru.
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. Type genus of the Caricaceae.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. (Greek mythology) The goddess of divine retribution and vengeance.
13. Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person.
14. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
15. A person who evokes boredom.
25. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. (Britain) Flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea.
31. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
32. Relating to or demonstrating acapnia.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. An informal term for a father.
37. The face or front of a building.
38. Lacking affection or warm feeling.
39. Prince's plume.
41. (slang) A batch of things that go together.
42. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
44. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
45. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
47. Coil in which voltage is induced by motion through a magnetic field.
50. A port city in southwestern Iran.
53. Bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies.
57. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
58. In bed.
59. An informal term for a father.
62. Oil palms.
67. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
69. A genus of Thraupidae.
70. Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person.
71. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
73. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia.
74. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
76. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
77. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
79. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
80. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
81. Having little physical or spiritual strength.
82. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
84. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
85. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
87. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
88. A young woman making her debut into society.
89. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
91. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
92. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
93. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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