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1. (trademark) An antacid.
5. Cracks or fissures in the skin (especially around the mouth or anus).
13. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
17. A genus of European owls.
18. Someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures.
19. Of the color of black ink.
20. A member of the people in southeastern India (Andhra Pradesh) who speak the Telugu language.
21. An edible tuber native to South America.
22. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
23. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
24. A boot reaching halfway up to the knee.
26. Drought-resistant Asiatic treelike shrub bearing pleasantly acid small red edible fruits commonly used in sherbets.
28. British composer (1857-1934).
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
32. A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters.
38. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
43. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
44. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
47. (in various religions) The world of the dead.
48. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
49. (in India and Burma) A member of an armed gang of robbers.
52. A two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers.
54. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
55. Primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull.
57. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
60. Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness.
61. Tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm.
63. (horseshoes) The throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake.
66. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
67. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
68. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
69. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
71. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
72. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
73. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
75. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
76. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
80. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
84. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
88. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
90. To come or go into.
91. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
93. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
94. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
95. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
96. A Hindu prince or king in India.
97. A young woman making her debut into society.
98. The fifth day of the week.
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1. United States poet and critic (1899-1979).
2. A person who makes use of a thing.
3. The environmental condition.
4. Rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel.
5. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened.
6. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
7. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
8. Any thick messy substance.
9. Ludicrously odd.
10. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
11. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
12. Something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency.
13. A colorless fragrant liquid found in many essential oils.
14. A collection of excerpts from a literary work.
15. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
16. Type genus of the Hylidae.
25. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
27. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
29. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
33. Fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region.
34. Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916).
35. Smaller than Florida pompano.
36. A theatrical performer.
37. City in central Iran.
40. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
41. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
42. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
45. Jordan's port.
46. Read or interpret wrongly.
50. First or beginning.
51. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
53. A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.
56. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
58. A bar of sand.
59. An elaborate song for solo voice.
62. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
64. A distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas).
65. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
70. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
72. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
74. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.
75. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
77. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
78. Sudden sharp painful emotion.
79. (prefix) Within.
81. One-hundredth of a right angle.
82. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
83. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
85. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
86. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
87. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
89. A long-playing phonograph record.
92. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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