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1. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
4. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
9. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
13. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
16. (informal) Of the highest quality.
17. Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.
18. On, to, or at the top.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
21. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
22. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
23. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
24. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
26. Any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones.
28. Of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive n 1.
30. Ratlike rodent with soft fur and large ears of the Andes.
31. A relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas.
32. The square of a body of any size of type.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
35. A port city in northwestern France (in Brittany).
38. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
40. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
41. Exalt to the skies.
44. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
45. Incapable of or resistant to bending.
48. A technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing).
50. The twelfth month of the civil year.
53. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
54. The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).
55. American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for physics twice (1908-1991).
57. Being two more than fifty.
58. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
60. Submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts.
62. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
64. Young sheep.
67. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
68. Of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky.
71. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
73. Kneading and rubbing parts of the body to increase circulation and promote relaxation v 1.
75. Type genus of the Apidae.
79. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
80. A young woman making her debut into society.
82. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
83. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
84. Little known Kamarupan languages.
86. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
89. Evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the Himalaya.
91. English essayist (1775-1834).
92. An unforeseen obstacle.
93. The piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located).
95. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
96. A city in east-central France on the Rhone River.
97. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
98. 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.
99. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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1. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
2. Sour or bitter in taste.
3. Make soiled, filthy, or dirty.
4. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
5. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
6. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
7. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
8. A shop selling delicatessen (as salads or cooked meats).
9. English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705).
10. The beginning of anything.
11. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
12. Great coolness and composure under strain.
13. A loose shirt or tunic.
14. Speaking a Slavic language.
15. Flat and uninspiring.
25. Get together.
27. A woman who is engaged to be married.
29. Someone waiting in concealment.
34. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
36. A Hindu sect worshiping Shakti.
37. Genus of herbs of southern United States.
39. Of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell.
42. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
43. A Greek dialect that flourished under the Roman Empire.
46. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
47. Dark sweet or semisweet dessert wine from Sicily.
49. A member of a formerly tribal people now living in south central India.
51. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
52. (trade mark) A soft form of cereal for infants.
56. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
59. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
61. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
63. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
64. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
65. A communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled.
66. (botany) Especially of leaves.
69. A genetic abnormality resulting in short stature.
70. The loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign).
72. In a cold and icy manner.
73. A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.
74. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
76. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet.
77. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
78. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
81. Serving as or forming a base.
85. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
87. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
88. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
90. An affirmative.
94. A state in midwestern United States.
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