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1. A tight-fitting headdress.
4. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
9. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.
13. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. Talk pompously.
18. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
19. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
20. Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals).
22. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
24. The cry made by sheep.
25. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
26. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
27. A soft silvery metallic element.
29. (prefix) Within.
32. (informal) Of the highest quality.
33. (19th century) A man's high tasseled boot.
39. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
43. An implement used to erase something.
45. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
46. A harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment.
47. Edible greenish substance in boiled lobster.
48. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
49. Old World genus of annual to perennial herbs.
50. (Greek mythology) The Muse of lyric and love poetry.
51. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
52. A disease of poultry.
56. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
59. A public promotion of some product or service.
60. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
61. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
62. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
64. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
66. A Mid-Atlantic state.
67. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
72. A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation).
75. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
78. 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).
80. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
82. A noisy riotous fight.
83. Oblong cream puff.
86. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
88. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
89. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
90. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
92. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
93. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
94. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
95. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
96. Being on the left side.
97. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
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1. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
2. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
3. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
4. A clergyman.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels.
7. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
8. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
9. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
10. Causing a dull and steady pain.
11. An inhabitant of ancient Thebes.
12. Adult female chicken.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
15. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
21. The Israeli unicameral parliament.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. A polysaccharide produced in basophils (especially in the lung and liver) and that inhibit the activity of thrombin in coagulation of the blood.
30. A game in which darts are thrown at a dartboard.
31. Of high moral or intellectual value.
34. Genus of powdery mildews.
35. A long brightly colored shawl.
36. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
37. Failure of some tissue or organ to develop.
38. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
40. A card game for 2 players.
41. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
42. Garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering.
44. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
53. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
54. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
55. The sixth month of the civil year.
57. An inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the nose (usually associated with nasal discharge).
58. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
63. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
65. A stiff cap with ridges across the crown.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
68. (Greek mythology) The Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry.
69. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
70. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
71. A deep bow.
73. Having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number.
74. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
76. A boy or man.
77. An English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718).
79. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
81. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
84. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
85. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
86. In operation or operational.
87. The residue that remains when something is burned.
91. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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