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1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. An edict of the Russian tsar.
9. Elevated open grassland in southern Africa.
13. 10 grams.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
18. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
19. (Babylonian) The sky god.
20. Shockingly repellent.
22. A noun formed from a verb (such as the `-ing' form of an English verb when used as a noun).
24. A pass between mountain peaks.
25. (Old Testament) The son of Abraham who was cast out after the birth of Isaac.
26. Any plant of the genus Erica.
28. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
30. King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975).
32. A position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable.
36. A large number of things or people considered together.
39. Peruvian shrub with small pink to lavender tubular flowers.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. Being one more than one.
44. Be obedient to.
45. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
46. A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind.
48. Worthless material that is discarded.
49. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
51. A period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday.
55. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
56. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
59. Small European grebe.
61. A plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime.
63. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
66. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
67. Of or relating to any of the group of Sotho languages.
69. A notable achievement.
70. A large fleet.
73. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
74. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
77. A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.
81. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
85. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
87. The 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
89. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
90. (Norse mythology) The primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world.
91. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
93. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
94. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
95. A narrow way or road.
96. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
97. Any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas).
98. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
2. Type genus of the Anatidae.
3. Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916).
4. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area.
5. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands.
6. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
7. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
8. Having a specified kind of border or edge.
9. Someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement.
10. A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution.
11. An island of central Hawaii.
12. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
13. Australasian kingfishers.
14. A rounded projection or protuberance.
15. A city in northern Uganda.
21. Of a moderate purple color n.
23. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
27. An abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms.
29. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
31. An ordered reference standard.
33. The words of an opera or musical play.
34. A skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research.
35. Cheese containing a blue mold.
37. An upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments.
38. Regarded with aversion.
40. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
41. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
47. Provoke someone to do something through promises or persuasion.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. Gone by.
53. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
54. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
57. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
58. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
60. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
62. A small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis).
63. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area.
64. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
65. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
68. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
71. French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793).
72. Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614).
75. Avatar of Vishnu.
76. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
78. Informal terms for a mother.
79. A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.
80. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
82. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
83. In bed.
84. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
86. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
88. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
92. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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