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1. A vehicle carrying many passengers.
4. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
8. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
12. A person who possesses great material wealth.
16. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
17. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
18. The 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
19. Chief port of Yemen.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. Using speech rather than writing.
22. (prefix) Outside or outer.
23. The act of traveling by foot.
24. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
26. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
29. The mistake of not following suit when able to do so.
30. A brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry.
31. One thousandth of a second.
34. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
36. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
40. Cause to be attached.
43. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
44. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
49. Of a moderate orange-yellow color.
51. Of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures.
53. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
56. (Hinduism and Buddhism) The beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation.
60. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
61. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
62. A soft silvery metallic element.
63. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
67. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
70. The 8th letter of the Greek alphabet.
71. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
72. Drought-resistant Asiatic treelike shrub bearing pleasantly acid small red edible fruits commonly used in sherbets.
76. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
78. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
80. Any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
84. Norwegian composer whose work was often inspired by Norwegian folk music (1843-1907).
85. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
87. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
88. The force of workers available.
89. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
91. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
95. A strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide.
96. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
97. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
98. A large number or amount.
99. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Favoring one person or side over another.
7. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
8. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
9. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
10. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
11. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
12. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
13. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
14. A sails-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere near Carina.
15. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
25. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
27. (formal) A person who announces important news.
28. A member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia.
32. One (as a retailer or distributor) that stocks goods.
33. Someone who etches.
35. A member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona.
37. Exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing.
38. Tuberous or rhizomatous perennial herbs.
39. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
41. Of inferior or mixed breed.
42. A Russian river.
45. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
46. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
47. Not out.
48. A small family of tunicates in the class Thaliacea.
50. A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another.
52. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
54. An associate degree in nursing.
55. In operation or operational.
57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
58. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
59. A genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
64. Lacking motor coordination.
65. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. A flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines.
69. An honorary law degree.
73. Step on it.
74. (Irish) God of love and beauty.
75. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
76. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
77. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
79. United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981).
81. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
82. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
83. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
86. A master's degree in fine arts.
87. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
90. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
92. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
93. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
94. The compass point midway between south and west.
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