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1. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
4. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
9. Full of zest or vigor.
13. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
16. Being one more than two.
17. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
18. American novelist (1909-1955).
19. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
20. A secondary school (usually private).
21. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
22. The cry made by sheep.
23. A local computer network for communication between computers.
24. The visual percept of a region.
25. Traveling or passing over land.
27. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
31. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
33. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
35. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
40. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
45. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
46. Using speech rather than writing.
48. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
49. Australian clover fern.
51. United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909).
53. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
54. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
55. Loose or flaccid body fat.
57. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
60. A long slender cigar.
62. (superlative of `good') Having the most positive qualities.
63. Baby bed with high sides.
64. A hard copal derived from an African tree.
65. Ending in a sharp point.
68. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
69. A fractional monetary unit of several countries.
71. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
74. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
78. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
79. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
87. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
88. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
90. Lace again.
91. A periodic paperback publication.
92. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
93. The income arising from land or other property.
95. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
96. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
97. An Asian river between China and Russia.
98. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
99. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. The face of a timepiece.
2. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
3. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
4. Capital and largest city of the Ukraine.
5. German hero.
6. Someone with an aggressively negative attitude.
7. A state in northwestern North America.
8. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
9. Omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North and Central America.
10. Tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes.
11. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
12. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
13. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
14. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
15. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
26. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
28. A broken piece of a brittle artifact.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. Relating to or denoting or characteristic of Catalonia or its inhabitants.
34. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
36. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
37. United States writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947).
38. The animal order including amoebas.
39. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
41. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands.
42. Of or relating to George Boole or his logic.
43. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
44. A loose shirt or tunic.
47. Measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube.
50. Many times at short intervals.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
56. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
58. A New England state.
59. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
61. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
66. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
67. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
70. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
72. Firmly fastened or secured against opening.
73. The largest city of Cameroon.
75. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
76. Of or relating to or located near a hilum.
77. Wood of a sumac.
80. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
81. An informal term for a father.
82. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
83. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
84. Divulge information or secrets.
85. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
86. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
89. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
94. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
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