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1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
9. A discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder.
13. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. Having the slant of a bevel.
18. Type genus of the Anatidae.
19. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
20. An unsaturated hydrocarbon obtained from plants.
22. A tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave.
24. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
25. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
26. A person who makes a promise.
29. A workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold.
31. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
32. Minor or subordinate.
34. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
35. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
37. Informal terms for a mother.
41. Any loose flowing garment.
43. A colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins.
47. Kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting.
48. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
49. Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness.
50. A period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. Using the voice.
53. A person of Iranian descent.
54. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
58. The square of a body of any size of type.
59. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
61. Resembling or made to resemble leather.
63. Italian Benedictine monk who was archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109.
68. The act of catching an object with the hands.
69. A group of southern Bantu languages.
70. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
72. Any plant of the genus Astilbe having compound leaves and showy panicles of tiny colorful flowers.
76. A fellow member of a team.
84. A state in midwestern United States.
86. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
87. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
88. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
90. A branch of the Tai languages.
91. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
92. Having finished or arrived at completion.
93. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
94. The total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor.
95. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
4. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
5. (Brit) UK decimal coin worth ten pennies.
6. American civil rights worker in Mississippi.
7. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
8. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
9. South African term for `boss'.
10. A gene that causes normal cells to change into cancerous tumor cells.
11. Crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory.
12. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
13. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
21. (British) A disparaging term for an appointee.
23. Producing two offspring at a time.
27. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
28. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
30. Unknown god.
33. Singing by changing back and forth between the chest voice and a falsetto.
36. A building where prostitutes are available.
38. A declaration that is made as if no supporting evidence were necessary.
39. Of or relating to measure.
40. A person or thing represented or foreshadowed by a type or symbol.
42. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
44. Take away the weapons from.
45. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
46. A primeval personification of air and breath.
55. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
56. The part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes).
57. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
60. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.
62. A city of central China.
64. An amine containing the double bond linkage -C=C-N-.
65. The general activity of selling.
66. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
67. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
71. Natural qualities or talents.
73. A form of Japanese poetry.
74. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
75. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
77. (prefix) Within.
78. Chief port of Yemen.
79. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform.
80. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
81. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
82. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
83. (biology) Shed at an early stage of development.
85. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
89. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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