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1. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
8. A small cake leavened with yeast.
12. A bluish shade of green.
16. Any high mountain.
17. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
18. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. Cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect.
20. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
22. (Greek mythology) God of the stream that flowed around the earth in ancient mythology.
24. United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909).
25. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
26. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping.
28. Plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper.
29. A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another.
31. A man who is a stupid fool.
33. Deeply eroded barren land.
37. Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines.
40. The sixth month of the civil year.
41. The act of excusing a mistake or offense.
45. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
46. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
48. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
51. Divulge information or secrets.
52. Belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India.
54. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
55. Commonly used diuretic (trade name Lasix) used to treat hypertension and edema.
57. Overcome esp. with astonishment or disbelief.
58. Physical strength.
60. Being one more than two.
61. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
62. A nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal.
64. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
66. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
68. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
69. (Greek mythology) A mythical monster with three heads that was slain by Hercules.
74. The highest level or degree attainable.
77. Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals).
80. A Hindu prince or king in India.
84. Being three more than fifty.
85. A permanent council of the United Nations.
87. A sweet but poisonous syrupy liquid used as an antifreeze and solvent.
89. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
90. United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954).
91. The content of cognition.
93. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
94. Sudden sharp painful emotion.
95. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
96. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
97. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
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1. Offering fun and gaiety.
2. A musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it.
3. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
4. A radioactive transuranic element.
5. A state of disorder involving group violence.
6. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
7. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
8. A popular vacation spot in the Canadian Rockies.
9. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
10. A member of a subgroup of people who inhabit Lesotho.
11. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
12. Perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries.
13. (Sumerian) Legendary friend of Gilgamish.
14. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
15. Capital and largest city of Togo.
21. Plant cultivated for its enlarged fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
34. The state capital of South Australia.
35. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
36. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
38. A railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution.
39. More of the same adv.
42. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
43. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
44. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
47. American dwarf fan palms.
49. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
50. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
53. A Black woman or girl.
56. Abnormal dryness of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eyes.
59. Marry within one's own tribe or group.
63. A state in New England.
65. The sport of traveling on a bicycle or motorcycle.
66. A radioactive transuranic element.
67. A B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction.
68. A member of a subgroup of people who inhabit Lesotho.
70. The unit of plane angle adopted under the System International d'Unites.
71. (Greek mythology) Any of the 50 sea nymphs who were daughters of the sea god Nereus.
72. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
73. An informal term for a father.
75. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.
76. An electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged.
78. A genus of Mustelidae.
79. A white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans.
81. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
82. A person trained to compete in sports.
83. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
86. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
88. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
92. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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