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1. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
4. (electronics) A sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients).
9. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
13. A federally chartered savings bank.
16. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
17. A violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightening.
18. A Scottish church.
19. Fiddler crabs.
20. Stay too long.
22. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
24. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
25. Not only so, but.
26. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
29. Vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish.
31. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
32. Finding a solution to a problem.
35. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
38. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
41. Of or relating to the uvea of the eye.
44. An associate degree in nursing.
45. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.
48. Of great mass.
50. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
51. The father of your father or mother.
53. A formation of people or things one beside another.
54. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
56. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
57. A state in New England.
58. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
59. Free from liquid or moisture.
60. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
64. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
67. Any of various small biting flies.
68. A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk.
70. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
72. Look at with amorous intentions.
73. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
74. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
75. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
76. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
78. A young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men.
80. Type genus of the Amiidae.
84. Not final or absolute.
85. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
88. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
90. Kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting.
91. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
92. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
94. A master's degree in fine arts.
95. A large mass of ice floating at sea.
96. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
97. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
98. A port in southwestern Scotland.
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1. Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province.
2. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
3. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
4. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
5. A resident of Utah.
6. A city in east central China.
7. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
8. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
9. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
10. That which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings.
11. West Indian timber tree having very hard wood.
12. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
13. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
21. Worshipper of Shiva.
23. English portrait painter and first president of the Royal Academy (1723-1792).
27. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
28. A penicillinase-resistant form of penicillin (trade name Nafcil) used (usually in the form of its sodium salt) to treat infections caused by penicillin-resistant strains of staphylococci.
33. Be central or dominant.
34. Feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness.
36. Toward the mouth or oral region.
37. A great rani.
39. A person who eats human flesh.
40. Be earlier in time.
42. Pile of waste matter from coal mining etc.
43. A light clear metallic sound as of a small bell.
46. 1/10 gram.
47. Upright in position or posture.
49. Somewhat ill or prone to illness.
52. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
55. Inability to walk.
61. A sac-like widening of an artery.
62. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
63. Pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies).
65. Method or manner of conduct in relation to others.
66. A toxic protein extracted from castor beans.
69. An implement used to erase something.
71. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
77. Perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning.
79. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
81. Informal terms for a mother.
82. (informal) Subject to accident or chance or change.
83. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
86. A resource.
87. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
89. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
93. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
94. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
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