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1. A secret agent hired by a state to obtain (military) information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors.
4. A promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books).
9. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
13. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
16. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
17. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
18. Marked by skill in deception.
19. A commercially prepared mixture of dry ingredients.
20. Type genus of the Balaenidae.
22. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
24. The products of human creativity.
25. English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901).
27. Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948).
28. Being one more than one.
29. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
31. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
33. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.
36. Before noon.
37. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
39. Become or cause to become soft or liquid.
41. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
46. Towards the side away from the wind.
47. Remove carbon from (an engine).
49. Having few if any teeth.
52. A very attractive or seductive looking woman.
54. Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other.
55. Assign in incorrect name to.
56. A city of east central Mexico (west of Veracruz).
59. Relating to or being a word processing system that prints the text exactly as it appears on the computer screen.
60. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
61. A small piece of cloth.
62. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
63. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
65. Hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles.
68. (Norse mythology) The primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world.
74. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
75. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
76. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
81. (used of arms and legs) Bent outward with the joint away from the body.
84. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
86. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
89. A three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides.
90. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
91. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
93. Make editorial changes (in a text).
94. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
95. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
96. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
97. A short personal letter.
98. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. The compass point that is one point south of southeast.
2. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
3. River in eastern Asia.
4. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
5. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
6. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
7. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
8. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
9. A festival featuring African-American culture.
10. The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal).
11. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
12. City in Sudan.
13. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
14. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
15. Further or added.
21. Cause to be embarrassed.
23. Perversely irritable.
26. Made of bamboo.
28. No longer in existence.
30. A state in the eastern United States.
32. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
34. A sac-like widening of an artery.
35. Any of various small tropical American orchids of the genus Stelis having long slender racemes of numerous small to minute flowers.
38. A city in Lombardy on the Po River.
40. Having open interstices or resembling a web.
42. Jordan's port.
43. The basic unit of money in Uruguay.
44. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
45. Report or maintain.
48. Having hills and crags.
50. The basic unit of money in Yemen.
51. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
53. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
57. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
58. A city in central Georgia southeast of Atlanta.
64. An ancient country in central Italy.
65. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
66. By bad luck.
67. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
68. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
69. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
70. Avatar of Vishnu.
71. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
72. An established ceremony prescribed by a religion.
73. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
77. Not reflecting light.
78. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
82. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
83. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
85. Anything that serves as an enticement.
87. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
88. The capital and largest city of Japan.
92. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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