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1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. A Hindu prince or king in India.
8. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
12. A caress with the lips.
16. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
17. In bed.
18. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.
19. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
20. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
21. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
23. Large Indian antelope.
24. English architect (1746-1813).
26. Having escaped, especially from confinement.
28. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
29. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
30. Marked by exceptional merit.
32. Leap. jerk, bang (dialectal).
34. Small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall.
36. A recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing.
37. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
40. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
42. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
44. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
45. The scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting).
47. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
49. Noisy talk.
51. A doctor's degree in education.
52. Rounded like an egg.
53. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
56. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
58. World's longest river (4187 miles).
59. Any of various widely distributed beetles.
61. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
62. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
63. Highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried.
64. Speak in a nasal voice.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. Capital city of the Piemonte region of northwestern Italy.
69. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
70. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
72. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
76. A genus of Platalea.
77. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
82. (Hinduism and Buddhism) The effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation.
85. A member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota.
87. The capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan.
89. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
90. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
91. A French abbot.
93. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
94. A transuranic element.
95. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
96. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
97. (prefix) Half or partial.
98. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
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1. Having an oblique or slanting direction or position.
2. Distant in either space or time.
3. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
4. Disparaging terms for the common people.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Capital of Armenia.
7. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
8. Hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists.
9. Leaking out slowly.
10. Being five more than one hundred.
11. Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism.
12. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
13. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
14. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
15. A vessel that carries passengers or freight v 1.
22. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
25. English translator and Protestant martyr.
27. Of or belonging to an enemy.
31. The compass point midway between north and west.
33. Someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity.
35. Large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil.
37. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
38. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
39. Of or relating to or characteristic of the African Republic of the Sudan or its people.
41. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
43. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
46. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
48. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
50. God of love and erotic desire.
54. Having winglike extensions.
55. A student who studies excessively.
57. Bandicoot rats.
60. Someone who leaves one country to settle in another.
66. French philosopher and theologian.
67. Disparaging terms for the common people.
68. Make opalescent.
69. Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism.
71. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
73. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
74. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
75. (of wood) Darkened or colored by exposure to ammonia fumes.
78. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
79. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
80. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
81. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
83. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
84. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
86. An enclosed space.
87. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
88. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
92. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
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