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1. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
5. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
13. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
16. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
17. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
18. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
19. Fiddler crabs.
20. A cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte).
23. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
25. A cruel and brutal fellow.
26. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
29. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. (usually plural) The state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound.
38. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
39. The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form.
46. French impressionist painter (1840-1926).
47. Leave voluntarily.
48. Relating to or near the ulna.
49. Late time of life.
50. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
51. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
52. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
53. Black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of United States Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
59. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
62. (mythology) According to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that was swallowed by an earthquake.
64. Relatively small tuna with choice white flesh.
65. In a drab manner.
66. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
69. The twelfth month of the civil year.
70. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
71. Elongate very slender water scorpions.
74. Fail to keep or to maintain.
75. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
76. A polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables.
77. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
79. A bluish shade of green.
84. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
88. Any of various ornamental evergreens of the genus Lomatia having attractive fragrant flowers.
91. Having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation.
93. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
94. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
95. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
97. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
98. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
99. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
100. A formal expression of praise.
101. A small cake leavened with yeast.
102. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. Castrate, used with animals.
2. A city in east central Texas.
3. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
4. Meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce.
5. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
6. Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa.
7. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
8. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
9. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
10. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
11. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
12. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
13. German Lutheran theologian (1884-1976).
14. An ordered reference standard.
15. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
21. A custard-like food made from curdled milk.
22. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
24. (music) Characterized by avoidance of traditional Western tonality.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. The cry made by sheep.
30. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
32. Of or relating to chaetae (setae or bristles).
34. Religious zeal.
35. Of or relating to or resembling a condyle.
36. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
37. Meeting adequate standards for a purpose.
40. A genus of Indriidae.
41. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
42. An informal term for a father.
43. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
44. Type genus of the Tapiridae.
45. Extravasation of urine into the scrotal sac.
54. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
55. An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands).
56. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
58. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
60. Nocturnal wildcat of Central and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat.
61. A Loloish language.
63. Spherical gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies.
67. Be around.
68. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
72. Marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects.
73. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
78. Leafless East Indian vine.
80. A Hindu theistic philosophy.
81. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
82. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
83. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
85. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
86. In bed.
87. Avatar of Vishnu.
89. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
90. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
92. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
96. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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