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1. The virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
4. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
9. (superlative of `good') Having the most positive qualities.
13. An affirmative.
16. Black tropical American cuckoo.
17. Offspring of a male tiger and a female lion.
18. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
21. An Indic language.
22. Deprived of parents by death or desertion.
24. God of death.
26. The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon.
27. Baking shelled eggs.
29. (Old Testament) A son of Jacob and a forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
32. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
33. A parallelogram with four equal sides.
35. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
37. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.
41. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
42. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
44. One of the green parts that form the calyx of a flower.
45. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
46. A state in New England.
47. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
49. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
55. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
56. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
57. A navigable body of water.
58. United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967).
59. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
61. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
63. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
64. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
68. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
70. Joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces.
71. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc..
74. Of or relating to or characteristic of the people or language of Malaysia and the N Malay Peninsula and parts of the W Malay Archipelago.
75. (linguistics) Of speech sounds.
77. The sixth month of the civil year.
79. Greek lyric poet of Lesbos.
81. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
83. Extremely robust.
87. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
88. A relatively flat highland.
90. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
91. Water frozen in the solid state.
92. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
93. Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands.
95. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
96. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
97. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
98. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
99. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
2. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
3. (H2SO4) A highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide.
4. A unit of pressure.
5. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
6. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
7. A driver who obstructs others.
8. Cause to disbelieve.
9. The Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life.
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain.
12. Provide with a terrace, as of a house.
13. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
14. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
15. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng.
23. A pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene.
25. The capital of Eritrea.
28. Located at or near the back of an animal.
30. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
31. The male is bright red with black wings and tail.
34. Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness.
36. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
38. On or outside the dura mater.
39. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
40. Sloping channel through which things can descend.
43. Largest known toad species.
48. Marked by skill in deception.
50. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
51. The compass point midway between south and west.
52. Characterized by slanting characters.
53. A genus of birds of the family Alcedinidae.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
60. A genus of Lamnidae.
62. Fallow deer.
65. Small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves.
66. Suffering from abulia.
67. The second month of the Hindu calendar.
68. A driver who obstructs others.
69. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
70. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
72. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
73. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
76. A member of a Finnish people of Russia.
78. An item of factual information derived from measurement or research.
80. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
82. Two items of the same kind.
84. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
85. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
86. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
89. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
94. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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