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1. Tag the base runner to get him out.
4. When two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot the results is called `craps' or `snake eyes'.
9. A Loloish language.
13. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
16. (informal) Of the highest quality.
17. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
18. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. The hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn.
24. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
26. Used especially in treating bruises.
27. Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977).
29. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
30. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
31. Seed of a pea plant.
33. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
34. An informal term for a father.
39. Sound of something in rapid motion.
40. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
43. Accept as true.
45. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
48. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
50. In bed.
51. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
52. Someone who places an order to buy.
54. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
55. Capital and largest city of Indonesia.
57. Any high mountain.
60. The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves).
61. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
65. To declare or affirm as true.
67. A hallucinogenic compound obtained from a mushroom.
70. Having the slant of a bevel.
71. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
72. Pearl oysters.
73. At or constituting a border or edge.
74. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
76. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
78. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
81. Being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness.
83. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
87. Set down according to a plan.
91. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
92. A bachelor's degree in library science.
93. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
95. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
96. A condition requiring relief.
97. Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold.
98. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
99. A column of light (as from a beacon).
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1. Of or in or relating to the nose.
2. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
3. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
4. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
5. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
6. A rapid bustling commotion.
7. Type genus of the Percidae.
8. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
9. Absent without permission.
10. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
11. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
14. A cloth having a crisscross design.
15. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
21. German statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898).
23. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
25. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
28. Fastened with stitches.
32. King of Wessex whose military victories made Wessex the most powerful kingdom in England (died in 839).
35. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
36. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
37. Photograph reduced to the size of a dot (usually for purposes of security).
38. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
41. Apoapsis in orbit around Jupiter.
42. The principal bullfighter who is appointed to make the final passes and kill the bull.
44. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
46. Method or manner of conduct in relation to others.
47. Give an education to.
49. Annual and perennial herbs of damp habitats.
53. Nearly cosmopolitan family.
56. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
58. An island of central Hawaii.
59. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
62. Hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists.
63. Any plant of the genus Acanthus having large spiny leaves and spikes or white or purplish flowers.
64. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
66. Suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle.
67. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
68. Estrangement from god.
69. To exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle.
70. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
75. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
77. (medicine) Chilly.
79. Any competition.
80. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
82. Being nine more than ninety.
84. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
85. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
86. Causing a dull and steady pain.
88. A flexible container with a single opening.
89. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
90. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
94. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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