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1. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
4. A person who captures and holds people or animals.
12. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
15. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
16. Markedly different from an accepted norm.
17. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
18. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
19. A medium for oil-paints.
20. (of tempo) Slow adv.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. An honorary law degree.
25. (of a batter) "he went hitless for three innings".
27. A column of light (as from a beacon).
29. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
31. The probability of a specified outcome.
32. Being one more than one hundred.
34. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
35. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
36. Of southern Europe.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. A light touch or stroke.
40. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
41. Goddess of dawn.
45. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
49. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
50. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
55. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
57. Understood in a certain way.
58. Being one more than one.
59. Squash bugs.
61. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
63. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
64. Informal terms for money.
66. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
67. A public promotion of some product or service.
69. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
70. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
75. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
77. A Hindu prince or king in India.
80. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
81. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
84. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
85. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
87. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
88. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
89. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
90. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
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1. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
2. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
3. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
4. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
5. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
6. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
7. Type genus of the family Tridacnidae.
8. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
9. A ridge that forms a seam between two parts.
10. Half the width of an em.
11. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
12. Having had the bones removed.
13. An honorary arts degree.
14. Worthless material that should be removed.
21. Type genus of the Elopidae.
23. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
26. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
28. Not only so, but.
30. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
33. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
37. Leather with a napped surface.
42. The virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
43. A means of serving.
44. French composer noted for his experimentalism and rejection of romanticism (1866-1925).
46. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
48. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
51. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
53. Jordan's port.
54. The capital of Turkey.
56. A small cake leavened with yeast.
60. (Judaism) A period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative.
62. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
65. Wild ginger.
68. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
71. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
72. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
73. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
74. Chief port of Yemen.
76. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
78. A humorous anecdote or remark.
79. Again but in a new or different way.
82. A rapid bustling commotion.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
86. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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