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1. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
4. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
9. Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17).
13. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
18. The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon.
19. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
20. Drawn or pressed close to someone or something for or as if for affection or protection.
22. Above the surround or above the normal position.
24. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
25. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
26. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
27. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
29. A genus of Fasciolidae.
32. A song that was formerly popular.
34. Related by blood.
35. The longest division of geological time.
36. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
44. Providing protective supervision.
46. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
47. United States writer of science fiction (1907-1988).
50. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
51. Repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning.
53. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means.
54. A pin used to hold the tie in place.
56. Fastening electrical equipment to earth.
58. An Eskimo hut.
60. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
61. (informal) Of the highest quality.
62. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
63. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
65. The act of scanning.
67. A public promotion of some product or service.
69. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
70. In the Roman calendar.
71. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
76. A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War.
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
84. A member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico.
85. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
87. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
89. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
91. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
92. A person who makes use of a thing.
93. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
95. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
96. A primeval personification of air and breath.
97. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings.
98. 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).
99. The cry made by sheep.
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1. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
2. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
3. A relation that provides the foundation for something.
4. Any of various units of capacity.
5. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
6. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
7. One million periods per second.
8. Suggestive of the supernatural.
9. Of or relating to near the ear.
10. Italian filmmaker (1906-1976).
11. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
12. A doctor's degree in education.
13. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
14. A notable achievement.
15. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
21. Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. Red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales.
30. Being one more than two.
31. Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill.
33. An audiotape recording of sound.
37. Coextensive with the order Pholidota.
38. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
40. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
41. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
42. Freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk.
43. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
45. Cause to lose one's composure.
48. Being seven more than fifty.
49. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
52. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
55. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet.
57. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
59. A local computer network for communication between computers.
64. A member of a Turkic people of Chinese Turkestan and neighboring areas (formerly of Mongolia and eastern Turkestan).
66. A resident of Nevada.
67. Any of various units of capacity.
68. One who adheres to traditional views.
72. Someone who sets snares for birds or small animals.
73. Ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail.
74. An associate degree in nursing.
75. Lower in esteem.
77. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
78. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
79. A lake in northwestern Russia.
80. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
81. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
83. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
86. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
88. A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments).
90. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
94. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
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