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1. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
4. Foul with waste matter.
9. One who works hard at boring tasks.
13. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
16. The fatty flesh of eel.
17. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
18. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
19. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
21. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
22. The act of traveling by foot.
23. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
24. Jordan's port.
26. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
30. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
32. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. Apply a lubricant to.
41. A piece of cloth sewn under an opening.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. The basic unit of money in China.
49. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
50. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
51. Immediately past.
52. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
54. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
55. A state in New England.
57. Any plant of the genus Erica.
59. Very small.
61. School of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith.
62. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
66. Natural qualities or talents.
68. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
69. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
70. Type genus of the Ranidae.
71. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
73. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
75. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
76. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
83. Fallow deer.
87. Someone who bakes commercially.
88. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
89. Type genus of the Haemulidae.
90. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
91. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
94. A city in northern India.
95. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
96. A Hindu prince or king in India.
97. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
98. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
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1. Stalk of a moss capsule.
2. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
3. English essayist (1775-1834).
4. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
7. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
8. Lacking excess flesh.
9. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
10. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
11. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
12. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
13. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
14. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
15. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
25. A wind from the north.
27. A short coat.
28. A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner).
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
33. Genus of woody Asiatic vines.
34. Of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess.
36. Shrubby climbers of tropical America.
37. Taken before a meal as an appetizer.
38. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
40. A smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked.
42. A festival featuring African-American culture.
43. Lying toward or situated in the east.
44. A white powder used as a pigment for its high covering power and durability.
46. An angular shape made by folding.
47. Measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube with a tap at the bottom.
53. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
56. A Loloish language.
58. Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.
60. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
63. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
64. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
65. Proceeding in small stages.
66. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
67. (comparative of `near') Being the one of two that is less distant in space.
68. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
72. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
73. An associate degree in nursing.
74. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
75. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
77. A fastener for a door or lid.
78. A Loloish language.
79. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
80. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
81. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
82. A three-tone Chadic language.
84. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
85. (Roman mythology) Roman god of death.
86. Type genus of the Anatidae.
92. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
93. An informal term for a father.
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