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1. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
4. Type genus of the family Lepadidae.
9. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
13. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
16. A sizeable hole (usually in the ground).
17. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
18. Lie adjacent to another.
19. The act of using.
20. Not fake or counterfeit.
22. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
25. Make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird.
26. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
27. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A state in south central United States.
33. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
35. The herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis.
39. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
40. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
42. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
45. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
49. Divisible by two.
50. Approximately the last 10,000 years.
51. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
52. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
54. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
56. Complacently or inanely foolish.
58. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
59. A quantity of no importance.
60. Not in good physical or mental health.
61. Indigo bush.
62. Inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects.
64. An ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile.
66. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
67. A powerful operating system developed at the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
68. An associate degree in nursing.
70. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
73. English essayist (1775-1834).
74. A public promotion of some product or service.
79. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
86. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
89. (informal) Of the highest quality.
90. A member of the Uniat Church.
91. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
93. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
94. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
95. A plain plinth that supports a wall.
96. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
97. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Possessing material wealth.
3. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
4. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
5. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
6. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
7. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. A single splash.
9. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
10. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. A major waterfall in southern Africa.
12. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
13. Small donkey used as a pack animal.
14. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
15. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
21. Roman emperor and adoptive son of Nerva.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A place where the wicked are punished after death.
28. An informal term for a father.
30. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
32. A festival featuring African-American culture.
34. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap.
36. A large ax with a broad cutting blade.
37. Periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Velban) that disrupts cell division.
38. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
41. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
43. The capital and largest city of Japan.
44. Rich in significance or implication.
46. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa).
47. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
48. A Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam.
53. Freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk.
55. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
57. Of or relating to the nervous system.
63. (trademark) An antacid.
65. A plumbing fixture (usually attached to the wall) used by men to urinate.
69. A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface.
71. Relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north wind.
72. Having branches.
75. Acute abdominal pain (especially in infants).
76. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
77. Sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along on wheels and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs.
78. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
80. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
81. In bed.
82. (electronics) Designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel.
83. Type genus of the Nepidae.
84. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
85. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
86. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
87. The tenth month of the Hindu calendar.
88. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
92. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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