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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (born in 1905).
9. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.
13. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
16. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
17. A broken piece of a brittle artifact.
18. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
19. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
20. A person who lives and works on land.
21. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
23. The residue that remains when something is burned.
24. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
25. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
26. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
28. A tapering point.
30. Exultantly proud and joyful.
32. A tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia.
35. A permanent council of the United Nations.
39. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
44. Something twisted and tight and swollen.
45. A genus of European owls.
49. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
50. Short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent.
51. Pour water on.
52. Having the slant of a bevel.
53. Small genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs.
55. 100 sene equal 1 tala.
57. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
58. Violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements).
60. Branch out like trees.
63. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
64. Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).
67. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
69. In large part.
70. A boy or man.
73. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
75. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
77. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
84. An active and efficient cause.
87. Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916).
89. A human limb.
90. United States architect (born in China in 1917).
91. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
92. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
93. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
94. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
95. A cloth covering (a legging) that provides covering for the instep and ankles.
96. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
97. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. Among the largest bony fish.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
4. A hard brittle blue-gray or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals.
5. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
6. (used to introduce a logical conclusion) From that fact or reason or as a result.
7. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
10. Jordan's port.
11. Make a logical or causal connection.
12. The fatty flesh of eel.
13. (informal) Exceptionally good.
14. A framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame.
15. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
22. A high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc..
27. A verse line with a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee.
29. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
31. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
33. French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687).
34. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
36. Growing on or living among rocks.
37. A speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels).
38. A rattling sound as of hard things striking together.
40. A battle during the American Revolutionary War (1777).
41. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
42. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
43. Situated at or extending to the side.
46. Overgrown with ivy.
47. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
48. 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.
54. The food served and eaten at one time.
56. A white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans.
59. A knot at the end of a cord or rope that can slip along the cord or rope around which it is made.
61. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
62. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
65. (Greek mythology) The Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology.
66. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
68. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
71. German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia (1868-1934).
72. A genus of Platalea.
74. A genus of Lamnidae.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
78. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
79. Any branch of Shinto other than Kokka.
80. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
81. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
82. Type genus of the Amiidae.
85. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
86. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
88. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
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