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1. A proportion multiplied by 100.
4. A church associated with a monastery or convent.
9. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
13. A three-year law degree.
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. English monk and scholar (672-735).
18. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
19. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
20. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
22. Small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail.
25. Anglo-Saxon poet (circa 9th century).
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. Very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches.
29. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
30. A quantity that is added.
32. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
33. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
37. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
41. Informal terms for money.
44. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
47. The capital and largest city of Dominica.
48. (informal) Of the highest quality.
49. Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments.
51. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
52. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
56. The basic unit of money on Malta.
57. (Assyrian) God of fire and light.
58. A city in central Texas.
59. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
60. A public promotion of some product or service.
61. A republic in western South America.
62. New Zealand conifer.
64. Fallow deer.
69. A knee-length pleated tartan skirt.
70. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
71. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
72. In a grim implacable manner.
74. (informal) Inclined to club together.
80. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
81. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
85. Lower in esteem.
89. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
90. Informal terms for the mouth.
93. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
95. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
96. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
97. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
99. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
101. A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments).
102. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
103. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
104. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
105. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
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1. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
2. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
3. (prefix) Across or crossing or on the opposite side.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. A field game played with a ball (especially baseball).
6. Hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo.
7. The capital and largest city of Japan.
8. A language group of the Hokan family.
9. Free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception.
10. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
11. The basic unit of money in Iran.
12. A doctor's degree in optometry.
13. The provision of money temporarily (usually at interest).
14. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
15. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
21. A native or inhabitant of Sweden.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. Of or relating to mucous membranes.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
34. Portable bulletproof shelter.
35. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
36. Paper with a crinkled texture.
38. In a series.
39. A compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur).
40. Fearless daring.
42. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
43. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
45. Divulge information or secrets.
46. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
50. The elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli.
53. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
54. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
55. Type genus of the Caricaceae.
63. (used of arms and legs) Bent outward with the joint away from the body.
65. King of Scotland (died in 1057).
66. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
67. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
68. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
73. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
75. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
76. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
77. Closed with a lace.
78. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
79. Grind together, of teeth.
80. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
82. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
84. Toward the mouth or oral region.
86. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
87. A member of the Algonquian people living in Wisconsin the Fox River valley and the shores of Green Bay.
88. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
91. Used of a single unit or thing.
92. (Roman Catholic) A greeting signifying Christian love for those assisting at the Eucharist.
94. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
98. A state in the eastern United States.
100. A state in northwestern North America.
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