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1. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
4. United States neuroscientist noted for his studies of the neural basis of vision (born in 1926).
9. A Spanish river.
13. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
16. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
17. Being of use or service.
18. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
19. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
20. The basic unit of money in Albania.
21. Showing deterioration from age.
22. A hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses.
23. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
24. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
26. Having existence or being or actuality.
29. Jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds.
31. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. Socialist who wrote The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848 (1820-1895).
36. Outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape.
38. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
40. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
42. Perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
50. Characteristic of false pride.
54. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
55. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
57. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
60. A member of the most numerous indigenous people of the Philippines.
62. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
63. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
64. Not elegant or graceful in expression.
65. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
68. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
70. Someone (especially a German) who speaks a Germanic language.
72. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
75. United States poet (1884-1933).
78. African mahogany trees.
83. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
85. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
86. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
88. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
92. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
93. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
94. Largest known toad species.
95. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
96. Inquire about.
97. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
98. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
99. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
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1. Small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits.
2. A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended.
3. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
4. Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation.
5. An organism that can utter vocal sounds.
6. Having two axes.
7. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
8. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
9. A monocotyledonous genus of graceful palm trees in tropical America.
10. A sultanate in northwestern Borneo.
11. Stock again.
12. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
13. An informal term for a father.
14. Jordan's port.
15. Wood of a sumac.
25. Informal terms for journalists.
27. A city in southeastern South Korea.
28. Analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence).
30. 1/10 gram.
32. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
35. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. Pearl oysters.
39. Align anew or better.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. Remove the hand from.
44. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
46. The capital of Guinea-Bissau.
47. A genus of Lamnidae.
48. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
51. The cry made by sheep.
52. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
53. A shape that sags.
56. Type and only genus of the family Tytonidae.
58. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
59. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
61. In a competent capable manner.
66. A thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric.
67. Advanced in years.
69. Offering fun and gaiety.
71. A state in southeastern United States.
73. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
74. Any of various rich and elaborate cakes.
75. A state in northwestern North America.
76. Any admirable quality or attribute.
77. A genus of Ploceidae.
79. United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United states films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954).
80. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
81. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
82. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
84. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
85. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
87. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
88. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
89. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
90. A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments).
91. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
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