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1. Rectangular paving stone with curved top.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
9. Toward the mouth or oral region.
13. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
16. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
17. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
18. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
19. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
20. Social insect living in organized colonies.
22. A city in northwestern Syria.
24. The sacred city of Lamaism.
25. A deep bow.
26. The ending of a series or sequence.
27. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
28. Used of a single unit or thing.
30. Peace of mind.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
40. Relating to the Urdu language.
42. A person who commits larceny.
46. A primeval personification of air and breath.
48. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
49. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
51. Characterized by friendship and good will.
55. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
56. The act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving).
57. Make less visible or unclear.
58. Cause to be attached.
61. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
62. Cause to change.
63. A member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas but now largely in Oklahoma.
64. Transient cessation of respiration.
66. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
67. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
68. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
69. Any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
76. The month following April and preceding June.
77. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
86. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
87. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
89. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
91. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
92. Someone who practices homosexuality.
93. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
94. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
95. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
96. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
97. Chief port of Yemen.
98. By bad luck.
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1. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
2. English essayist (1775-1834).
3. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
4. Small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs.
5. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
6. (informal) Of the highest quality.
7. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
8. Resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible.
9. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
10. Adroitness and cleverness in reply.
11. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
12. Rich and superior in quality.
13. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
14. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
15. A small vessel for travel on water.
21. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
23. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
29. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
34. The type genus of the family Bromeliaceae which includes tropical American plants with deeply cleft calyx.
36. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
38. Small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs.
39. Not liable to error.
41. A force that moves something along.
43. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
44. A unit of traffic intensity in a telephone system.
45. A daughter of your brother or sister.
47. A department of northwestern France in the Pays de la Loire region.
50. Dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France.
52. Type genus of the Coerebidae.
53. A city in northern India.
54. A mistake resulting from inattention.
59. An offer of two for the price of one.
60. Heal or recover.
65. (Great Britain) Money received from the state.
70. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
71. Rich and superior in quality.
72. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
73. Used of gloves, socks, etc..
74. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
75. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
78. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
79. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
80. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
81. Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail.
82. An actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression.
83. The food served and eaten at one time.
84. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
85. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
88. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
90. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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