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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. A harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog).
9. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
13. A shape that sags.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. Do wrongly or improperly.
18. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
19. An accountant certified by the state.
20. German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969).
21. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
23. Come into possession of.
25. An associate degree in applied science.
26. The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands.
27. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
29. Complacently or inanely foolish.
31. A bachelor's degree in religion.
32. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
35. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
36. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
39. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
43. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
46. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
47. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. The modern Greek port near the site of the ancient city that was second only to Athens.
52. The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.
53. Subdivision not used in some classifications.
55. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
56. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
58. A Bantu language spoken in southern coastal Tanzania.
60. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
62. The vein in the center of a leaf.
64. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
65. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
66. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
67. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
68. 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.
71. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
72. Having short a smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum.
76. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
78. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
80. God of wealth and love.
82. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
88. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
91. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
92. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
94. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
97. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
98. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
99. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
100. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
101. A university in Connecticut.
102. A periodic paperback publication.
103. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
104. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
105. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
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1. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
2. A city in northern India.
3. South African term for `boss'.
4. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
5. In a dangerously risky manner.
6. Of or relating to the songbirds n.
7. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
8. Sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Mohammed during his life at Mecca and Medina.
9. The lowest brass wind instrument.
10. An associate degree in nursing.
11. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
12. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
13. The act of scanning.
14. The capital of Western Samoa.
15. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
22. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
24. Freetail bats.
28. Brilliantly colored south Asian pheasant.
30. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
33. Extended meanings.
34. An acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal).
37. (combining form) Former.
38. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
40. Assign a new name to.
41. (botany) Capable of fertilizing female organs.
42. Plant cultivated for its enlarged fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem.
44. Beat through cleverness and wit.
45. Having services engaged for a fee.
49. A small rubbery granuloma that is characteristic of an advanced stage of syphilis.
50. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
54. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
57. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
59. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
61. Any plant of the genus Erica.
63. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
69. The residue that remains when something is burned.
70. The basic unit of money in Mauritania.
71. The act of scanning.
73. A motley assortment of things.
74. A public promotion of some product or service.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
78. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
79. Short and fat.
81. Before noon.
83. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
84. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
85. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
86. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
87. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
89. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
90. A person who makes use of a thing.
93. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
94. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
95. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
96. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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