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1. A communication system using fiber optic cables.
5. A polite name for any woman.
9. Expressed without speech.
13. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
16. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
17. Cheese containing a blue mold.
18. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
19. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
20. French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960).
22. Prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973).
25. American dramatist (1928- ).
26. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
28. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
30. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
32. Of or relating to or toward the cheek.
38. The square of a body of any size of type.
39. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
42. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
43. Before noon.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
48. Having awns i.e. bristle- or hair-like appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
54. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
55. (Welsh) A warrior god.
59. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
60. A garment (coat or sweater) that has raglan sleeves.
62. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
64. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
65. Lacking in reality or substance or genuineness.
66. Grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers.
69. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
70. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
73. The 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
74. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
78. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
82. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
83. Very spicy sauce made from tabasco peppers.
88. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
89. Very dark black.
90. Any competition.
92. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
93. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
94. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
95. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
96. Toward the mouth or oral region.
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1. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
2. Using speech rather than writing.
3. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
4. (informal) A crushing remark.
5. 16 ounces.
6. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
7. Make or become free of frost or ice.
8. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
9. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
10. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
11. A branch of the Tai languages.
12. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
13. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible.
14. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
15. Consistent with fact or reality.
21. United States sculptor (born in 1924).
23. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
31. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
33. Resembling an umbel in form.
34. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
35. A quantity of no importance.
36. Small family of usually tropical butterflies.
37. An almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum.
40. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
41. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
45. Used improperly or excessively especially drugs.
47. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
49. A person given to excessive complaints and crying.
51. Any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers.
53. A group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea.
56. A lustrous gray strong metallic element resembling titanium.
57. A republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean coast.
58. The 3rd planet from the sun.
61. Qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward.
63. A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.
64. 16 ounces.
67. A person forced to flee from home or country.
68. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
71. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
72. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
75. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
76. A quantity that is added.
77. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
79. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
80. A Loloish language.
81. An unofficial association of people or groups.
84. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
85. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
86. A United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services.
87. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
91. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
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