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1. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
5. A strong current of air.
9. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
13. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
16. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
17. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
18. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
19. An informal term for a father.
20. A sudden short attack.
21. Marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions.
23. A large fleet.
25. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
27. Lying toward or situated in the east.
29. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
30. In a correct manner.
32. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
34. A fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar).
37. A salt of any halogen acid.
41. In or of the month preceding the present one.
42. Advanced in years.
47. Having relatively few calories.
48. German chemist who pioneered analytical chemistry and discovered three new elements (1743-1817).
50. A deficiency of red blood cells.
53. One million periods per second.
54. A genus of Mustelidae.
55. A genus of Nymphalidae.
57. Spread or diffuse through.
59. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
60. A narcotic antagonist (trade name Nalline) that counteracts the effects of narcotics (especially the effects of poisoning by morphine).
61. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
62. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
64. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
66. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
67. A soft silvery metallic element.
71. One-thousandth of an equivalent.
75. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
80. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
82. Advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status.
84. Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic.
88. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
89. Type genus of the Noctuidae.
90. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
91. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
93. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
95. A decree that prohibits something.
96. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
97. A submachine gun operated by gas pressure.
98. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
99. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
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1. A city in northern India.
2. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
3. Set down according to a plan.
4. A severe or trying experience.
5. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
6. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
7. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
8. Worthy of trust or belief.
9. An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term).
10. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
11. Eruption on a mucous membrane (as the inside of the mouth) occurring as a symptom of a disease.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
14. An informal term for a father.
15. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
22. A heavy precious metallic element.
24. Dam to make a millpond to provide power for a water mill.
26. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. That is going in.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. The state of being allied or confederated.
36. Type genus of the Otariidae.
38. Being one more than one.
39. (law) A formal objection to an opponent's pleadings.
40. More of the same adv.
43. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
44. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
45. A member of the Taracahitian people of central Mexico.
46. A rosid dicot genus that includes moon carrots.
49. (used colloquially) Having the relationship of friends or pals.
51. A fine strong sheer silky fabric made of silk or rayon or nylon.
52. Being one more than two.
56. A device (used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together v 1.
58. God of wealth and love.
63. A Russian river.
65. Evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania.
68. A person with a strong desire for something.
69. Any member of the Amniota.
70. Freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes.
72. The French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec.
73. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
74. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
76. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
77. Injured by bites or stings.
78. Snuff colored.
79. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
80. A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation).
81. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
83. The act of scanning.
85. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
86. The face of a timepiece.
87. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
92. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
94. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
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