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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
5. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
9. A thrusting blow with a knife.
13. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
16. Greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
17. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
18. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
19. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
20. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
21. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
23. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
25. Impairment resulting from long use.
27. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
28. A member of the South American people living in Argentina and Bolivia and Paraguay.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
37. Anglo-Saxon poet (circa 9th century).
41. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
43. United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United states films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954).
44. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
49. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
51. Ancient city southeast of Naples that was buried by a volcanic eruption from Vesuvius.
53. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
54. A shoe covering the ankle.
57. A genus of Ploceidae.
59. Make opalescent.
60. British composer (1857-1934).
61. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
62. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
63. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
64. To run away.
65. A member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico.
66. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
69. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
72. An associate degree in nursing.
73. Being one more than one hundred.
74. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
76. Type genus of the Gavidae.
78. Being or given to servile imitation.
81. A movable barrier used in motor racing.
83. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
86. Perform on a stage or theater.
88. Extract the essence of something by boiling it.
90. An associate degree in applied science.
91. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
92. The brightest star in Virgo.
94. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
95. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
96. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
97. A unit of weight used in some parts of Asia.
98. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
99. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
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1. A medieval oboe.
2. Low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage.
3. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
4. Small order of macroscopic fresh and brackish water algae with a distinct axis.
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
7. A city in northern India.
8. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
9. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
10. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
11. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
12. Aromatic gum resin.
13. State in northeastern India.
14. A large quantity of written matter.
15. Common Indian weaverbird.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. (usually in the plural) Pants for casual wear.
26. Someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession.
29. The sound made by corvine birds.
31. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
33. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
34. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
35. The academic world.
36. A player in a band (especially a military band).
38. A member of a North American Indian people of central Arizona.
39. City in Sudan.
40. A mistake resulting from inattention.
45. Urge or force (a person) to an action.
46. Evasively worded in order to avoid an unqualified statement.
47. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
48. A woman of refinement.
50. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
52. A derogatory term for a white person (said to have been used by North American Indians).
55. An educated and intellectual elite.
56. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
58. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
67. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
68. Of or relating to or obtained from milk (especially sour milk or whey).
70. Refuse to acknowledge.
71. Of or like a cecum.
75. Or or relating to or caused by tides.
77. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
78. Before noon.
79. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
80. A fastener for a door or lid.
82. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
84. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.
85. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
87. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
89. A proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages).
93. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
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