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1. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
4. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
9. Fallow deer.
13. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
16. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
17. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
18. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
19. A three-year law degree.
20. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
21. A motley assortment of things.
23. Speak in a nasal voice.
25. Sour or bitter in taste.
28. A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables.
30. Having been read.
31. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
33. United States chemist noted for his theories of molecular structure (born in 1919).
35. Of or relating to the heart.
38. Suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal.
42. Before noon.
43. A public promotion of some product or service.
44. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
47. The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians.
48. Playful in an appealingly bold way.
50. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
52. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
53. A sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains.
54. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
56. Rate of revolution of a motor.
57. (British) Informal term for information.
61. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
64. Pertaining to or consisting of pictures.
66. British composer (1857-1934).
70. A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British).
71. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
74. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
75. Vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish.
79. Free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms.
86. Taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change and so limiting financial risk.
88. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
89. Used of a single unit or thing.
90. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
92. United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis (born 1914).
93. The bill in a restaurant.
94. (British) Your grandmother.
95. At full speed.
96. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
97. (Babylonian) The sky god.
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1. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
2. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
3. Make attractive or lovable.
4. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
6. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
7. Brightest star in Centaurus.
8. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
9. Remove gas from.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. The state of being a man.
12. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
13. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
14. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
15. In bed.
22. A chord whose notes are played in rapid succession rather than simultaneously.
24. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
26. Someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication.
27. Boas and pythons.
29. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
32. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
34. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
36. Any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice.
37. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
39. Foliose lichens chiefly of northern latitudes.
40. A bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder.
41. A skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer).
45. Colored or impregnated with dye.
46. Having escaped, especially from confinement.
49. Dried root of two plants of the genus Polygala containing an irritating saponin.
51. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
55. A doctor's degree in religion.
58. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
59. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
60. Tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea.
62. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
63. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
65. A strutting dance based on a march.
67. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
68. The fatty flesh of eel.
69. The chance to speak.
72. United States showman who popularized the circus (1810-1891).
73. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained.
76. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
77. New Zealand conifer.
78. A form of Japanese poetry.
80. A Russian river.
81. Chief port of Yemen.
82. Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation.
83. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
84. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
85. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
87. A decree that prohibits something.
91. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
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