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1. The sound made by a gentle blow.
4. One of the twelve Apostles (first century).
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
13. Inquire about.
16. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
17. Thin and fit.
18. Stalk of a moss capsule.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. A boy or man.
21. The act of relaying something.
22. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
23. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
24. Marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws.
27. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
28. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
29. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
35. French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism.
37. An East Indian sailor.
41. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
42. The face or front of a building.
45. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
46. A state in the eastern United States.
49. A large quantity of written matter.
50. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
52. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
53. Arm again.
54. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
55. Revealing excessive self-confidence.
58. A sudden short attack.
60. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
61. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
62. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
64. An ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC.
66. Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something.
68. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
71. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
72. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
73. A light touch or stroke.
75. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
77. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
79. A member of the Siouan people of the Arkansas river valley in Arkansas.
82. A Russian river.
83. An antiviral drug used in the treatment of AIDS.
84. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
85. Not out.
86. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
88. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
92. A primeval personification of air and breath.
94. A person who is not very bright.
96. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
98. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
99. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
100. Sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system.
101. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
102. (Irish) The sea personified.
103. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
104. Make editorial changes (in a text).
105. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
106. The fatty flesh of eel.
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1. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
2. The sixth month of the civil year.
3. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
4. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
5. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
6. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
7. Using speech rather than writing.
8. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
9. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
10. A beautiful and graceful girl.
11. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
12. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A fraudulent business scheme.
15. Knock unconscious or senseless.
25. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Acular and Toradol) that is administered only intramuscularly.
26. Coins collectively.
28. A surface coating for ceramics or porcelain.
31. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
32. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
34. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
36. A master's degree in fine arts.
38. Hawk's beard.
39. An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live.
40. Any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC.
43. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
44. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
47. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
51. A landlocked republic in central Africa.
56. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
57. United States film actress (born in Sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990).
59. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
63. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
65. United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1897-1970).
67. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
68. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
69. The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs.
70. The sport of gliding on skates.
71. A beautiful and graceful girl.
74. The cry made by sheep.
76. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
77. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
78. Dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid.
79. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
80. Cause to lose one's nerve.
81. Any shape that is triangular in cross section.
87. The distinctive form in which a thing is made.
89. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
90. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
91. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
93. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
95. Being two more than fifty.
97. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
98. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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