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1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet.
9. Fallow deer.
13. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
16. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
17. Retinal protein formed by the action of light on rhodopsin.
18. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
19. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
20. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
21. Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC).
22. Powdery starch from certain sago palms.
23. (informal) Roused to anger.
24. Jordan's port.
26. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
28. A paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs.
30. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
32. Leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree.
34. Usually coiled.
38. Predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions.
42. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
43. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence.
47. With considerable certainty.
50. A Hindu prince or king in India.
51. A slender double-reed instrument.
53. An intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.).
55. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
57. (Japan) Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword.
58. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
61. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
63. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
64. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
65. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
66. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
72. A landlocked republic in southern central Africa.
75. God of wealth and love.
77. Someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication.
79. An acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety.
83. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.
84. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws.
85. Deciduous shrub of North America.
86. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
88. So scary as to cause chills and shudders.
89. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
91. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
93. An Asian river between China and Russia.
94. A very small circular shape.
95. In bed.
96. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
97. A small cake leavened with yeast.
98. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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1. Stalk of a moss capsule.
2. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
3. A city in northern India.
4. A member of an aboriginal people living in the hills in southeastern India.
5. The month following March and preceding May.
6. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
7. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
8. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
9. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
10. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
11. A unit of resistance equal to one million ohms.
12. Lack of normal muscular tension or tonus.
13. Avatar of Vishnu.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
25. Scottish dramatist and novelist.
27. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
29. Of or relating to Tantrism.
31. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
33. Sayings of Jesus not recorded in the canonical Gospels.
35. A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation.
36. Load anew with ammunition, "She reloaded the gun carefully".
37. A motley assortment of things.
39. Only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand.
40. Usually used of physical or mental injury to persons.
41. Pertaining to or located on or near the seacoast.
45. A genus of Mustelidae.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. A conspicuous constellation in the northern hemisphere.
52. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
54. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
56. A master's degree in library science.
59. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
60. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
62. Former usage synonymous with Antedon.
67. Take hold of.
68. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
69. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
70. A warning against certain acts.
71. Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.
73. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
74. A large number or amount.
76. An expression of greeting.
77. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
78. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
80. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
81. Of inferior or mixed breed.
82. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
87. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
90. Informal terms for a mother.
92. A doctor's degree in religion.
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