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1. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
4. Look at with amorous intentions.
8. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
12. Little known Kamarupan languages.
16. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
18. Advanced in years.
19. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
20. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
21. A genus of Mustelidae.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. One thousandth of a second.
24. A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.
26. A state in southeastern United States.
28. The amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface.
30. Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire.
31. Two items of the same kind.
33. Black tropical American cuckoo.
34. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
36. A person forced to flee from home or country.
39. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
42. A French abbot.
44. Any plant of the genus Andryala having milky sap and heads of bright yellow flowers.
49. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
50. Common Indian weaverbird.
51. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
55. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
56. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
58. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
60. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
63. An opening into or through something.
65. Jordan's port.
67. Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds).
69. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
70. A political leader (especially of Tammany Hall).
72. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
73. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
75. The basic unit of money in China.
76. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
78. A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.
80. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
82. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
83. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
86. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
89. The eleventh month of the civil year.
91. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
93. Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked.
95. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
99. (medicine) Having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course.
101. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
103. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
104. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
106. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
108. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
109. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
110. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
111. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
112. A primeval personification of air and breath.
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1. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
2. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
3. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
4. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
5. A quantity that is added.
6. (Irish) The sea personified.
7. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
8. The bill in a restaurant.
9. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
10. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
11. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
12. Someone whose business is advertising.
13. A mountainous republic of south-central Europe.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. Any competition.
25. Cut the head of.
27. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
29. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
32. A long wandering and eventful journey.
35. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
37. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
38. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
40. A railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes.
41. A major school of Buddhism teaching social concern and universal salvation.
43. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
45. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
46. Prevent the growth of horns.
47. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
48. Insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant.
54. A sudden short attack.
57. A palace and fortress built in Granada by the Moslems in the Middle Ages.
59. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
61. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
62. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
64. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
66. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
68. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
71. One million periods per second.
74. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
77. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
79. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
80. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
81. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
84. Type genus of Cycadaceae.
85. Escape, either physically or mentally.
87. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
88. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
92. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
94. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
96. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
97. Capital and largest city of Italy.
98. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
100. The cry made by sheep.
102. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
105. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
107. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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