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1. Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).
5. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
9. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
13. An honorary degree in science.
16. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
17. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
18. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. An intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls.
21. A member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called pueblos by the Spanish because they live in villages built of adobe and rock.
23. The capital of Morocco.
25. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
28. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
31. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
33. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
37. Squash bugs.
41. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. Noisy and mischievous merrymaking.
45. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
50. A block of metal that is cast in a particular shape for convenient handling.
51. One of the common people.
53. A situation in which no progress can be made.
55. (Scottish folklore) Water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders.
56. The outermost region of the sun's atmosphere.
58. A state in New England.
60. Not in good physical or mental health.
61. The father of your father or mother.
62. God of wealth and love.
64. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
66. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
67. The soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate.
70. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
73. An extinct volcano in south central Honshu.
77. A game in which darts are thrown at a dartboard.
80. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
81. Someone who makes or repairs tinware.
85. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
87. (Greek mythology) Greek goddess of fertility who later became associated with Persephone as goddess of the underworld and protector of witches.
88. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
89. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
90. The second largest city in Tunisia.
92. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
93. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
94. (used informally) Very small.
95. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
96. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
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1. Type genus of the Ranidae.
2. Type genus of the Anatidae.
3. A plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime.
4. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. Put in a new, usually larger, pot, as of a plant that has grown.
7. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
8. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
9. A coterie of undesirable people.
10. French dramatist noted for his reinterpretations of Greek myths (1910-1987).
11. Not out.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
14. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
15. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. A crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins.
26. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
27. Informal terms for a mother.
32. A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia north of Afghanistan.
34. Yellowwood trees or shrubs.
35. A sudden very loud noise.
36. A woman sahib.
38. The Latin name for England.
39. Capital of modern Macedonia.
40. (architecture) Lacking columns or pillars.
43. (used of persons or the military) Characterized by having or bearing arms.
46. One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills.
47. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
48. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
49. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
52. Exerting a favorable or beneficent influence.
54. Socialist who wrote The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848 (1820-1895).
57. In a manner differing from the usual or expected.
59. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
63. Relating to modern Greece or its inhabitants or its language n.
65. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ghana or its people or language.
66. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
68. Animal food for browsing or grazing.
69. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
71. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
72. A large fleet.
73. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
74. Type genus of the Upupidae.
75. Female donkey.
76. An honorary arts degree.
78. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
79. Having a smooth, gleaming surface.
82. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
83. Half the width of an em.
84. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
86. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
91. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
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