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1. A writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
4. (British) Finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way.
12. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. A successful womanizer (after a fictional seducer).
17. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
18. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
20. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
21. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
22. American naturalist who contributed to paleontology and geology (1884-1960).
24. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
26. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
29. Any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
32. A state in New England.
33. Recovery or preservation from loss or danger.
36. A French abbot.
39. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
40. A small cave (usually with attractive features).
44. The body of faculty and students of a college.
47. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
48. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993).
49. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
50. Gull family.
52. (informal) Of the highest quality.
53. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
55. A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic.
56. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
58. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
59. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
62. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
63. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed.
64. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
67. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
70. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
72. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. Finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper.
81. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
82. A worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis.
84. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
86. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
87. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
88. An ache localized in the middle or inner ear.
89. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
3. Mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults.
4. A person who seeks the advice of a lawyer.
5. United States pharmacologist (born in Germany) who was the first to show that acetylcholine is produced at the junction between a parasympathetic nerve and a muscle (1873-1961).
6. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. A United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services.
8. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
9. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
10. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
11. A member of an aboriginal people living in the hills in southeastern India.
12. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
13. Clean with one's bill, of birds.
14. Distance travelled per unit time.
19. A worthless message.
23. A white trivalent metallic element.
25. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
27. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
28. A town in northern Minnesota.
31. (anatomy) Opposite to or away from the mouth.
34. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
35. Toward the inside of the cheek.
37. Divulge information or secrets.
38. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
41. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
42. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
43. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
45. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
46. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
51. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
54. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
57. Widely known and esteemed.
60. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
61. Being one more than one hundred.
65. New Zealand conifer.
66. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
68. In bed.
69. God of love and erotic desire.
71. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
73. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
74. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
75. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
78. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
79. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
80. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
83. After noon.
85. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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