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1. Marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction.
5. (Middle East) An ornamental metal cup-shaped holder for a hot coffee cup.
9. A hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward.
13. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
16. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
17. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
18. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
19. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
20. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
21. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
22. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
23. A youthful male person.
24. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
26. A mercury-vapor lamp used in artificial sunray treatments.
30. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
32. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
35. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
37. A religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti).
40. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
42. The central area of a church.
46. Characteristic of false pride.
49. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation.
50. A friendly nation.
51. A genus of grasses with broad leaves and a dense spike of flowers.
53. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
54. Compete for something.
56. Tranquilizer (trade name Ativan) used to treat anxiety and tension and insomnia.
58. Located inward.
60. A member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah.
61. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
62. Be teeming, be abuzz.
64. Robber flies.
66. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
69. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
70. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
75. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
78. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
79. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
83. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
84. The content of cognition.
86. A young unmarried woman.
88. A Loloish language.
90. United States actor who performed with his wife Lynn Fontanne in many stage productions (1893-1977).
91. Someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another.
93. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
94. A university in Connecticut.
95. Ratlike rodent with soft fur and large ears of the Andes.
96. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
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1. The act of scanning.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
4. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
5. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
6. By bad luck.
7. A port city in southwestern Croatia on the Adriatic.
8. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
9. An analgesic for mild pain.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
11. An instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping.
12. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
13. Bar temporarily.
14. A university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River north of Bangor.
15. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
25. State capital of New York.
27. A skirt consisting of a rectangle of calico or printed cotton.
28. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
29. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
31. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
33. Align anew or better.
34. A city in central Texas.
36. Chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another.
38. Any of several games played with small rectangular blocks.
39. An onerous or difficult concern.
41. A clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth.
43. Lacking gonads.
44. A distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas).
45. Old World tropical herbs.
47. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
48. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
52. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
55. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
57. A game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes.
59. Cause to grow thin or weak.
63. A department of Greece in the central Peloponnese.
64. By bad luck.
65. In an ideal manner.
66. Bar temporarily.
67. An associate degree in applied science.
68. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
71. A city in Veneto.
72. A picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide.
73. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
74. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
76. A bowl-shaped vessel.
77. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
80. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
81. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
82. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
85. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
87. An enclosed space.
88. A unit of pain intensity.
89. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
92. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
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