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1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
16. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. Not in a state of sleep.
18. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
19. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
20. Exceptionally bad or displeasing.
22. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
25. A state in New England.
26. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
27. A town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
29. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
32. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
33. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
35. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
40. An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets.
45. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
46. Preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home).
47. Being one more than fifteen.
49. An outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the release of bombs.
51. (British) A local tax on property (usually used in the plural).
52. Dotted or adorned with or as with studs or nailheads.
54. French philosopher (1909-1943).
55. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
57. Traveling on horseback.
59. Slightly insane.
60. 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.
61. French ruling dynasty from 1328 to 1589.
62. A state in midwestern United States.
65. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
66. A state in southeastern United States.
67. A colobus monkey with a reddish brown coat and white silky fringes down both sides of the body.
69. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
72. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
76. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
77. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
80. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
84. Made from or covered with gold.
87. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
88. A genus of Anatidae.
89. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
90. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
92. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
94. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
95. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
96. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
97. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
98. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. A conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers.
2. A neutral middle vowel.
3. Capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria.
4. Informal terms for money.
5. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
6. A flexible container with a single opening.
7. Jordan's port.
8. Wish harm upon.
9. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
11. Of or like a cecum.
12. A public promotion of some product or service.
13. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
14. A French abbot.
15. (used of especially horses) Having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray.
21. Without a lip or lips.
23. Being one more than two.
24. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
28. An ancient city in southeastern Greece.
30. By bad luck.
31. Chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia.
34. French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791).
36. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
37. Music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance.
38. Editing that involves writing something again.
39. Become adolescent.
41. Hear or try a court case anew.
42. Obtain through intimidation.
43. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
44. (British) A member of the military police.
48. Tropical American flat-jointed prickly pear.
50. Absent without permission.
53. Patron saint of Wales (circa 520-600).
56. Affect with wonder.
58. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
63. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
64. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
68. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
70. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
71. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
73. Lower in esteem.
74. Come into existence.
75. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
78. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
79. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
81. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
82. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
83. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
85. Lacking excess flesh.
86. An informal term for a father.
91. 1/10 gram.
93. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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