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1. An informal term for a father.
4. The people of Great Britain.
9. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
13. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
16. The residue that remains when something is burned.
17. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
18. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
19. A container.
20. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
22. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
24. A power unit equal to the power dissipated when 1 abampere flows across a potential difference of 1 abvolt (one ten-thousandth of a milliwatt).
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
28. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
30. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
31. A rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo).
34. Wearing or provided with clothing.
38. A province in north-central China.
41. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. A state in east central United States.
47. Located inward.
49. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
50. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
52. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
56. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
57. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
59. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
60. An unforeseen obstacle.
61. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
62. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
63. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
66. Chief port of Yemen.
67. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
70. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
71. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
72. A small constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cygnus and Draco.
73. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
75. A chemical substance that is present at the start of a chemical reaction.
77. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
79. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
81. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
82. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
86. An oil port in southern Iraq.
90. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
91. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
95. Wild and domestic cattle.
96. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
97. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
99. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
100. In or of the month preceding the present one.
101. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
102. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
103. An honorary law degree.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
3. Basic principles of the cosmos.
4. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
5. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
6. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
7. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
8. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
9. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
12. A young woman making her debut into society.
13. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
14. Swiss hotelier who created a chain of elegant hotels (1850-1918).
15. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
21. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi.
23. Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast.
25. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
29. The sixth month of the civil year.
32. Absence of the natural lens of the eye (usually resulting from the removal of cataracts).
33. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
35. A landlord who is a woman.
36. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
37. Make editorial changes (in a text).
39. United States civil engineer noted for designing suspension bridges (including the George Washington Bridge) (1886-1960).
40. Not imagined even in a dream.
43. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
44. A genus of Mustelidae.
45. A loss of will power.
48. (comparative of `near') Being the one of two that is less distant in space.
51. The capital of Bahrain.
53. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
54. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
55. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
58. A republic on the Isthmus of Panama.
64. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
65. A knapsack (usually for a soldier).
68. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
69. A Mid-Atlantic state.
74. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
76. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
78. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
83. Absent without permission.
84. In or of the present month.
85. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
87. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
88. A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
89. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
92. An enclosed space.
93. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
94. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
98. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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