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1. An explosive device fused to denote under specific conditions.
5. (Middle East) Usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling.
9. An informal term for a father.
13. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
16. On or toward the lee.
17. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
18. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
19. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
20. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
21. A medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck.
23. A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
25. Port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan.
27. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
29. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
30. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
31. Relating to or near the ulna.
32. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
34. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
36. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
39. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
42. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
44. A pure form of finely ground silica.
47. A relation that provides the foundation for something.
50. A small hard fruit.
52. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
53. Praise, glorify, or honor.
54. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
55. City in central Iran.
58. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
59. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
62. In ceremonial attire and paraphernalia.
66. A large number or amount.
68. A Mid-Atlantic state.
70. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
73. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
74. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
76. A milkshake made with malt powder.
77. Seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination.
79. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
81. Being one more than one hundred.
82. Large scissors with strong blades.
86. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
90. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
91. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
94. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
96. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
97. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
99. (British) Common sense.
100. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
101. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
102. Jordan's port.
103. The eighth month of the civil year.
104. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
2. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
3. Humble in spirit or manner.
4. Made dirty or foul.
5. Wood of a pecan tree.
6. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
7. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
8. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
9. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
10. A public promotion of some product or service.
11. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
12. Type genus of the Amiidae.
13. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
14. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
15. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
22. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
24. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding.
26. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. A radioactive transuranic element.
35. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
37. A member of a North American Indian people of southern California.
38. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
40. Of or relating to or characterized by covalence.
41. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
43. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
45. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
46. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
48. Prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules.
49. A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution.
51. A decree that prohibits something.
56. Tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain.
57. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
60. Pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space.
61. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
63. A state in New England.
64. Inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects.
65. God of the Underworld.
67. (botany) Capable of fertilizing female organs.
69. Of or relating to or characteristic of Bahrain or its people or language.
71. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
72. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
75. A computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter.
76. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
78. A son who has the same first name as his father.
80. Cause annoyance in.
83. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
84. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
85. Largest known toad species.
87. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
88. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
89. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
92. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
93. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
95. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
98. Informal terms for a mother.
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