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1. The federal department that administers federal program dealing with better housing and urban renewal.
4. Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants.
8. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
12. A small nail.
16. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
17. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
18. A disreputable vagrant.
19. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
20. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
21. Of or relating to an orbit.
23. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
25. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
27. Suffering from abulia.
29. Appeal or request earnestly.
30. Inquire about.
33. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
34. A member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste.
35. A town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River.
38. Or or relating to or caused by tides.
40. An honorary arts degree.
43. A bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases.
45. Small genus of Asiatic herbs.
46. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
47. A canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
49. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
51. Goddess of fertility.
52. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
54. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
57. An enclosed space.
58. Black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins.
60. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
64. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
65. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
67. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
68. Income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments.
69. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
71. Elder brother of Krishna.
74. Characteristic of false pride.
77. A city in northwestern Switzerland.
79. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
80. (Assyrian and Babylonian) The chief sun god.
82. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
84. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
86. Of or relating to the fibula or the outer part of the leg below the knee.
91. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
92. A bar of sand.
95. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
96. Make reference to.
98. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
100. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
101. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
102. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
103. Two items of the same kind.
104. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
105. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
2. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
3. 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).
4. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
5. The month following March and preceding May.
6. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
7. An Asian country under the control of China.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. The basic unit of money in Venezuela.
10. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
11. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
12. Be bossy towards.
13. Provide with a new seat, as of a chair.
14. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
15. Two items of the same kind.
22. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
24. A city is east central Sweden north northwest of Stockholm.
26. Of or relating to or characteristic of Zaire or its people.
28. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
31. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. A dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten).
37. A thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral).
39. A city in central Illinois.
41. Of or relating to the study of meaning and changes of meaning.
42. Often cultivated for the decorative foliage.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
53. The face of a timepiece.
55. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
56. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
59. A soft silvery metallic element.
61. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
62. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
63. Make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation.
66. Lower in esteem.
70. Do over, as of (part of) a house.
71. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
72. Inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion.
73. An ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq.
75. Noteworthy scarcity.
76. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
78. A local computer network for communication between computers.
81. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
82. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
83. Either extremity of something that has length.
85. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
86. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
87. Young sheep.
88. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
89. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
90. God of love and erotic desire.
93. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
94. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
97. 16 ounces.
99. A state in north central United States.
100. A small piece of cloth.
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