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1. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
4. An oil port in southern Iraq.
9. Lacking in hardness relatively or comparatively.
13. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
16. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
17. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
18. Type genus of the Amiidae.
19. A local computer network for communication between computers.
20. The basic unit of money in Albania.
21. Type genus of the family Lepadidae.
22. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
23. The capital and largest city of Japan.
24. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
26. Australian moundbird.
29. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
33. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area.
39. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
41. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
45. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
46. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
48. Defeat (oneself) by going too far.
51. Flat blade-like projection on the arm of an anchor.
52. Of or relating to the life and times of kings Charles I or Charles II of England.
54. Showing your contempt by derision.
55. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
56. A Russian river.
57. A protein substance that remains when starch is removed from cereal grains.
58. A Mid-Atlantic state.
59. Wash or launder by hand instead of with a machine.
62. The Arabic (or decimal) system of numeration.
65. English psychologist who collaborated with I. A. Richards in designing Basic English (1889-1957).
66. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
69. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
70. A battle in World War II.
71. An antibiotic (trade name Azactam) used against severe infections.
72. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
73. Attribute to a source or cause.
75. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
76. Of or relating to or characteristic of Denmark or the Danes.
79. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
82. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
86. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
87. Capable of being added or added to.
91. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
93. A telephone connection.
95. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
96. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
97. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
98. Type genus of the Anatidae.
99. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
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1. Of a pale purple color.
2. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
3. A mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high).
4. East Indian evergreen tree bearing very acid fruit.
5. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
6. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
7. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
8. Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC).
9. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
10. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
11. A trivial lie.
12. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
13. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
14. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
15. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
25. 3rd largest island in the world.
27. Confused movement.
28. The occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity.
30. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
31. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
32. A woman religious.
34. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
35. Any plant of the genus Phacelia.
36. A shop selling delicatessen (as salads or cooked meats).
37. Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928).
38. A person holding a fief.
40. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
42. Port in northern Libya on the Gulf of Sidra.
43. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
44. A configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts.
47. Distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.
49. A state in the eastern United States.
50. 1 species.
53. The condition of being low.
60. An isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole.
61. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
63. Having a rim or a rim of a specified kind.
64. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
67. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
68. Sour or bitter in taste.
74. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
77. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
78. A quantity of no importance.
80. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
81. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
83. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
84. Again but in a new or different way.
85. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
88. A light touch or stroke.
89. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
90. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
92. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
94. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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