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1. Inquire about.
4. Relieve from military service.
9. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
13. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. Female ruff v 1.
18. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. Used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son.
22. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
23. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
24. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
26. A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Vela.
28. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
29. 16 ounces.
30. Any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue.
31. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
32. Male red deer.
35. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
37. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
40. A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
45. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
46. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
47. Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression).
48. A baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head.
50. Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell.
52. Type genus of the Majidae.
54. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
55. The sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) v 1.
56. A city is east central Sweden north northwest of Stockholm.
59. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
60. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
62. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
63. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
64. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
66. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
70. A genus of Platalea.
72. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
74. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
77. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
78. A colorless poisonous gas.
80. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
81. Consisting of or made of wood of the beech tree.
83. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
86. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
90. Bursting into flower.
93. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
94. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
95. (philosophy) Of a mental act.
98. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
99. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
100. A sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid.
101. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. God of love and erotic desire.
4. Depressing in character or appearance.
5. The fatty flesh of eel.
6. A city in Indonesia.
7. Heat-resistant dishware in which food can be cooked as well as served.
8. Hoary alyssum.
9. (of language) Transparently clear.
10. A city in northern India.
11. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
12. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
13. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
14. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
15. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
25. Any plant of the genus Nigella.
27. Type genus of the Lepismatidae.
29. Small creeping evergreen shrubs.
33. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Tyrol or its people.
34. (botany) Of some seeds.
36. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
38. Youthful appearance in an old person.
39. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
41. Type genus of the Muridae.
42. (biology) Any hook-shaped process or part.
43. Made of fir or pine.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
51. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
53. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
57. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
58. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
61. Related to or concerned with alchemy.
65. Cook beforehand so that the actual preparation won't take long.
66. Depressing in character or appearance.
67. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
68. A narcotic antagonist (trade name Nalline) that counteracts the effects of narcotics (especially the effects of poisoning by morphine).
69. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
71. Capital and largest city of Indonesia.
72. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
73. Congenital absence of an arm or leg.
75. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
76. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
79. A branch of the Tai languages.
82. A Spanish river.
84. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
85. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
87. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
88. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
89. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
91. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
92. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
96. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
97. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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