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1. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
4. Informal terms for a mother.
8. The state of owing money.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
16. (Sumerian) Sun god.
17. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
18. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
19. The sixth month of the civil year.
20. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
21. A Hindu prince or king in India.
22. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.
23. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
24. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. Hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel.
29. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
31. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
33. Not widely known.
34. Any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria.
37. Genus of shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico.
39. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
40. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
42. A card game for 2 players.
46. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
48. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
49. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
51. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
52. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
53. Regional and archaic.
54. A depression in an otherwise level surface.
55. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
57. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
58. The levorotatory form of dopa (trade names Bendopa and Brocadopa and Larodopa).
61. Having a melody (as distinguished from recitative).
64. A primeval personification of air and breath.
65. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
70. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
73. Being nine more than forty.
74. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
77. The basic unit of money in Romania.
79. Without doubt or question.
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
85. Suggestive of the supernatural.
88. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
90. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
91. Wild and domestic cattle.
93. Having finished or arrived at completion.
95. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
96. (informal) Of the highest quality.
97. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
98. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
99. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
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1. A reflex that expels wind noisily from the stomach through the mouth.
2. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
3. (Roman Catholic) A diplomatic representative of the Pope having ambassadorial status.
4. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. Type genus of the Majidae.
7. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
8. A mountain peak in the Karakoram Range in northern Kashmir.
9. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
10. Scottish dramatist and novelist.
11. A lever that is operated with the foot.
12. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
13. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
14. A city in south central Belgium situated on a promontory between the Meuse River and the Sambre River.
15. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
25. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.
27. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws.
30. The fare charged for traveling by airplane.
32. Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786).
35. Only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand.
36. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
38. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
41. Any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors.
43. A housing for a radar antenna.
44. The capital and largest city of Libya.
45. Enter into a list of prospective jurors.
47. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
50. American Revolutionary patriot.
56. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
59. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
60. Covered patchily.
62. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
63. An oral drug (trade name Baycol) to reduce blood cholesterol levels.
67. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
69. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
71. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
72. Marked by a rhythmical cadence.
75. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
76. Lower in esteem.
78. The brother of your father or mother.
80. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.
81. Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939).
84. The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
85. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng.
86. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
87. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
89. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
92. A bachelor's degree in science.
94. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
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