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1. A boy or man.
5. The academic world.
13. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
17. Capital and largest city of Italy.
18. Emptying accomplished by draining.
19. 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).
20. Employed in accomplishing something.
21. Intense and profound fear.
22. United States writer of children's books (1904-1991).
23. Any admirable quality or attribute.
25. Resembling a pea plant.
27. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles.
28. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
29. Lower in esteem.
31. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
34. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
35. The essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized.
39. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
44. 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.
45. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
47. A state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally).
50. Goddess of fertility.
51. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
53. A major victory by the Romans over the Macedonians in 168 BC.
54. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
55. Considerate and solicitous care.
56. A vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping.
58. Type genus of the Triglidae.
61. A piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying small ornaments.
62. (computer science) A read-only memory chip that can be erased by ultraviolet light and programmed again with new data.
63. Extremely robust.
64. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
66. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
67. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
68. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
69. The ability and desire to purchase goods and services.
74. English film actress (1913-1967).
77. A humorous anecdote or remark.
79. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
83. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
86. A covering to disguise or conceal the face.
87. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
89. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
90. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
92. The highest level or degree attainable.
94. Not reflecting light.
95. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
96. (Judaism) The ceremonial dinner on the first night (or both nights) of Passover.
97. Made of fir or pine.
98. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
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1. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible.
2. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).
3. Punish with an arbitrary penalty.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
6. The yield from plants in a single growing season.
7. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
10. Of or relating to or venerating the Virgin Mary.
11. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization.
13. Mongolian wild ass.
14. Posing no difficulty.
15. Someone whose job is to dye cloth.
16. A small island.
24. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
26. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
30. An enclosed space.
32. Edit and correct (written or printed material).
33. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
36. A historic division of Ireland located in the northeastern part of the island.
37. Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system.
38. Fix firmly.
40. Type genus of the Blattidae.
41. Of surpassing excellence.
42. Income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments.
43. Beet with a large yellowish root.
46. Slanderous defamation.
48. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
49. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
52. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
57. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
59. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
60. A stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle.
65. Reduce the level of land, as by erosion.
66. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
70. Austrian composer (1860-1911).
71. Largest known toad species.
72. The month following February and preceding April.
73. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
75. Order by virtue of superior authority.
76. An important question that is in dispute and must be settled.
78. A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof.
80. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
81. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
82. (informal) A bunch.
84. Rounded like an egg.
85. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
88. (informal) Of the highest quality.
89. An associate degree in nursing.
91. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
93. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
94. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
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