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1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. Wild ox.
9. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
13. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
16. Informal terms for the mouth.
17. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
18. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
19. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
20. A Nilotic language.
21. Wood of a pecan tree.
22. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
23. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
24. An elaborate song for solo voice.
26. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
28. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
29. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
30. A Christian Bishop who translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic (311-382).
31. Any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines.
35. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
38. The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
40. Shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus.
43. Being one more than fifty.
44. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
46. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
47. United States physicist who invented the bubble chamber to study subatomic particles (born in 1926).
50. The organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract.
52. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
53. (legal terminology) The Latin word for wife.
55. A metric unit of capacity equal to the volume of 1 kilogram of pure water at 4 degrees centigrade and 760 mm of mercury (or approximately 1.76 pints).
56. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
57. (of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes reproduction".
59. Strong and sharp.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
62. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
63. The basic unit of money in Iran.
68. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
69. Lack of strength or vigor esp from illness.
72. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
75. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
77. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
81. A person who lives in the dales of Northern England.
85. Before noon.
86. A soft silvery metallic element.
89. God of wealth and love.
90. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
94. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
95. Clarified butter used in Indian cookery.
96. Smaller than Florida pompano.
97. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
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1. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
2. An island republic on Nauru Island.
3. (usually plural) Valuables taken by violence (especially in war).
4. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
5. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
6. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
7. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
8. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
9. Stalk of a moss capsule.
10. A festival featuring African-American culture.
11. The fatty flesh of eel.
12. Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth.
13. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
14. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
15. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
25. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
27. A nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens.
29. Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages.
32. Wood of any of various mahogany trees.
33. A resident of Alabama.
34. Know or grasp by intuition or feeling.
36. Of or relating to clerks.
37. Breed of large wiry-coated terrier bred in Yorkshire.
39. Any of a large group of nitrogenous organic compounds that are essential constituents of living cells.
41. An associate degree in applied science.
42. The template for protein synthesis.
45. Wild and menacing.
48. An extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America).
49. The dense colorless framework of a chloroplast.
51. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
54. Being one more than ninety.
58. Of or relating to or characteristic of the people or language of Malaysia and the N Malay Peninsula and parts of the W Malay Archipelago.
64. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
65. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
66. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
67. 8th and most important avatar of Vishnu.
68. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
70. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
71. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
72. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
73. A person to whom money is paid.
74. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
76. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
78. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
79. A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck.
80. Drive away by crying "shoo!".
82. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
83. Advanced in years.
84. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
87. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
88. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
91. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
92. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
93. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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