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1. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
4. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
9. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
13. An enclosed space.
16. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
17. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
18. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. Grasshopper with short antennae.
22. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
24. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
25. A very wealthy or powerful businessman.
26. In bed.
28. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
32. The emotion of hate.
33. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
37. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
45. The upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities.
47. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
48. Appraisal of the biological activity of a substance by testing its effect on an organism and comparing the result with some agreed standard.
50. Work table of a machine tool.
51. A building where birds are kept.
53. A son who has the same first name as his father.
54. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
55. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
56. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
58. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
59. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
61. A receiver that displays television images.
64. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
66. A Russian river.
68. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
80. A mite of the genus Acarus.
82. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
84. A submachine gun operated by gas pressure.
85. Capital and largest city of Indonesia.
87. Mint plants.
89. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
90. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
91. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
93. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
94. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
95. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
96. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
97. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
98. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
2. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
3. A boat with a flat bottom for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).
4. An informal term for a father.
5. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
6. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
7. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
8. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
9. Young sheep.
10. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
11. A diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization.
12. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
13. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
14. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
15. A telegram sent abroad.
21. Only partly in existence.
23. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
27. A long chair.
30. Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds.
34. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
38. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
39. Type genus of the Blattidae.
40. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
41. In a coy manner.
42. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
43. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
44. Too numerous to be counted.
46. Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something.
49. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
52. Consider as ideal.
57. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
60. Confederate general in the American Civil War.
62. Infectious disease caused by a species of chlamydia bacterium.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. An island in the Persian Gulf.
66. An informal term for a father.
67. A flexible container with a single opening.
69. Having much flesh (especially fat).
72. Wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India.
73. Alligator-like reptile of Central and South America having a more heavily armored belly.
74. An indication of approved or superior status.
75. The female or generative principle.
76. Informal terms for a mother.
77. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
78. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
79. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
81. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
82. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
83. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
86. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
88. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
92. 16 ounces.
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