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1. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
5. Framework for holding objects.
9. Taken or to be taken at random.
13. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
16. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. Make anew.
19. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
20. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
21. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
22. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
23. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
24. A large fleet.
26. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.
28. Battle in World War I (1917).
30. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
31. Half the width of an em.
33. Trade name for an alloy used to make high-energy permanent magnets.
40. Make or become free of frost or ice.
44. (Roman mythology) God of love.
46. Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color.
48. Perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning.
49. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
51. Sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background.
52. A military trainee (as at a military academy).
53. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
55. Hoop that covers a wheel.
57. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
58. A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity.
59. Making a loud sharp sound as of a rifle shot or a breaking branch or a whip.
62. Of or belonging to an enemy.
63. Evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania.
65. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
66. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
68. A support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects.
70. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
71. United States film maker (1897-1991).
75. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
77. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
80. United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-1964).
82. The capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
85. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
89. The month following February and preceding April.
90. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
91. The sixth month of the civil year.
93. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
94. Used of a single unit or thing.
95. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
96. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
97. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. A city in the European part of Russia.
4. Relating to or caused by or afflicted with sciatica.
5. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A human female who does housework.
8. Informal terms for money.
9. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
10. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
11. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
12. A branch of the Tai languages.
13. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
14. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
15. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
25. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
27. A set of gears.
29. The basic unit of money in Macao.
32. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going".
34. Small genus of tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having pods like those of the acacia.
35. Being one more than eighteen.
36. A branch of the Tai languages.
37. (Old Testament) An ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Sodom) was destroyed by God for the vice and depravity of its inhabitants.
38. The head of a state government.
39. A former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay.
41. Sealed vessel where water is converted to steam.
42. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
43. An inclination or desire.
45. Some point in the air.
47. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
50. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe.
54. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
56. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
60. (Italian cookery) Squid prepared as food.
61. Important for human and animal food.
64. Of or relating to or made from a ceramic.
67. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
69. The square of a body of any size of type.
72. Located farther aft.
73. Indicating the most important performer or role.
74. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
76. Squash bugs.
77. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
78. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
79. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
81. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
83. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
84. God of love and erotic desire.
86. Any federal law-enforcement officer.
87. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
88. (informal) Roused to anger.
92. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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