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1. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
4. A secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
16. Tuberous or rhizomatous perennial herbs.
17. The month following February and preceding April.
18. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
19. Dried root of two plants of the genus Polygala containing an irritating saponin.
20. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
22. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
24. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
26. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
27. Muslim name for God.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
32. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
36. The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet.
40. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
44. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
45. A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck.
46. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
47. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
50. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
51. Information known only to a special group.
54. A republic in eastern Africa.
57. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
58. A soft gray mineral.
59. Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell.
60. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
62. A flexible container with a single opening.
63. An uproarious party.
64. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
67. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. Being ten more than eighty.
76. A protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building.
78. A branch of the Tai languages.
79. Gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement.
80. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
82. A master's degree in business.
83. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
84. French general who became Emperor of the French (1769-1821).
86. Tag the base runner to get him out.
87. A rapid bustling commotion.
88. Expressed by.
89. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
2. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
3. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
4. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
5. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
6. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
7. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
8. Something that remunerates.
9. Using speech rather than writing.
10. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
11. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
12. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
21. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
23. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
25. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
29. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
31. A state in northwestern North America.
34. A United States youth subculture of the 1950s.
35. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
37. 100 penni equal 1 markka.
38. A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair.
39. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
41. A garment of cloth or leather or plastic that is tied about the waist and worn to protect your clothing.
42. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
43. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
48. Affect with wonder.
49. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
52. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
53. A potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine.
55. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
56. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
61. Australian clover fern.
65. Expresses possibility.
66. A populous province in northeastern China.
68. A genus of Lamnidae.
69. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
70. Jordan's port.
72. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
73. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
75. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
77. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
81. Either extremity of something that has length.
85. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
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