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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. (informal) "in the dumps".
9. Fallow deer.
13. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
16. An awkward stupid person.
17. One who is playfully mischievous.
18. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
19. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
20. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 36 bushels.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
27. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
29. In a plucky manner.
31. A city in northern Iraq on the River Tigris across from the ruins of Nineveh.
36. Avatar of Vishnu.
40. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
44. Antipsychotic drug (trade name Moban) used in the treatment of schizophrenia.
45. Mint plants.
46. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
47. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
48. A state of agitated irritation.
49. Someone who waters plants or crops.
51. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
52. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
53. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
54. (Australian and New Zealand) A disparaging term for English immigrants to Australia or New Zealand.
55. Step on it.
56. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
57. A state in midwestern United States.
60. Being nine more than forty.
62. A metal or leather projection (as from the sole of a shoe).
64. (sociology) The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group.
65. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
68. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
70. A sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains.
71. Presence of excess lipids in the blood.
74. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
76. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
78. French poet (born in Romania) who was one of the cofounders of the Dada movement (1896-1963).
80. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
84. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
85. Used of certain religious orders who wear shoes.
88. Jutting or overhanging.
90. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
91. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
92. On, to, or at the top.
94. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
95. An informal term for a father.
96. A polite name for any woman.
97. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
98. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
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1. Greenish-yellow pear.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A master's degree in fine arts.
4. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
5. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
6. Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980).
7. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
8. Turned outward in an ungainly manner.
9. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
10. A rapid bustling commotion.
11. Be successful.
12. Before noon.
13. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
14. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.
15. A primeval personification of air and breath.
21. Narrow French stick loaf.
23. Tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries.
26. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
30. Large genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or small trees with large daisylike flowers.
32. Stork with a grooved bill whose upper and lower parts touch only at the base and tip.
33. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
34. Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares.
35. Something hard to endure.
37. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
38. Small soft-furred South and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails.
39. A native or inhabitant of Vietnam.
41. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
42. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Cataflam).
43. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
50. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
58. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
59. Hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach.
61. Deciduous shrub widely cultivated for its white or pink or red flowers.
62. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
63. Affect with wonder.
66. Of or resembling algae.
67. Foul with waste matter.
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. An informal term for a father.
73. Unable to relax or be still.
75. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
77. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
79. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
81. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
82. Any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge.
83. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
86. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
87. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
89. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
93. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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