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1. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
4. A sudden very loud noise.
8. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
12. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
18. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
19. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
20. City in northwestern Jordan.
22. Having had pain or loss or suffering inflicted.
25. (Babylonian) Consort of Anu.
26. In the area or vicinity.
27. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
28. Not final or absolute.
30. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
31. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
33. Family based on male descent.
36. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
41. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
44. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
46. A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).
48. Young owl.
50. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
52. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
53. A small piece of cloth.
58. Photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication.
61. Slowly broken down or crumbled into dust.
63. The language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life.
65. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
66. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
67. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
68. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
70. (Welsh) Corresponds to Iris Ler.
73. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
75. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
80. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
84. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
86. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
87. Make or shape as with an axe.
89. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
91. A resource.
92. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
93. Tropical Asian starlings.
94. A small cake leavened with yeast.
95. The cry made by sheep.
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1. The official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos.
2. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
3. The local environment.
4. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
5. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
6. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
7. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
8. French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960).
9. Of or relating to an agent or agency.
10. A genus of Ploceidae.
11. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
12. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
13. Inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable.
14. Of a pale purple color.
15. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
21. Become quiet or quieter.
23. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
24. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
29. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758).
35. Large Indian antelope.
37. A physiological need to drink.
38. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
39. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
40. Quietly in concealment.
42. Uncontrollably noisy.
43. Someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding.
45. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
47. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
49. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
51. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
54. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
55. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
56. A loose cloak with a hood.
57. Using speech rather than writing.
59. Used of paved surfaces having holes or pits.
60. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
62. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
64. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
69. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
71. (Welsh) Lord of Annwfn (the other world.
72. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
74. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
76. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
77. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
78. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
79. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
80. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
81. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
82. English essayist (1775-1834).
83. A quantity of no importance.
85. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
88. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
90. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
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