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1. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
5. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
9. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
13. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
16. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
17. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
18. Praise, glorify, or honor.
19. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
20. New Zealand conifer.
21. A practitioner of voodoo.
23. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
25. Submerged freshwater perennials.
27. Greek mythology.
29. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
30. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
32. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
34. French painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883).
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
40. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
43. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
46. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
47. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
48. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
49. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
51. (Scotland) A landowner.
53. (Babylonian) The sky god.
55. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
58. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
59. Microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica.
62. A river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea.
64. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
65. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
67. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
68. Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931).
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
73. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
74. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
77. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
78. A leisurely walk (usually in some public place).
81. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
84. God of death.
88. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
91. The title of the ancient Egyptian kings.
93. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
95. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
96. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise.
97. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
99. A very light brown.
100. A light touch or stroke.
101. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
102. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
103. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
104. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. More or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first.
2. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
3. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
4. Any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
7. Lacking gonads.
8. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
9. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again.
12. A rapid bustling commotion.
13. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
14. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
15. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
22. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
24. Type genus of the Otariidae.
26. Take in solid food.
28. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
31. A city in Veneto.
33. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
35. Cause to agonize.
36. A member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico.
39. Before noon.
41. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
42. Of or relating to or near the pudendum.
44. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
45. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
50. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
52. Chief god of the Rig-Veda.
54. Add ions to.
56. An island of Hawaii northwest of Oahu.
57. Slightly open.
60. Arranged or displayed systematically in table form.
61. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
63. A motley assortment of things.
66. The cry made by sheep.
69. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
70. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
75. A Russian river.
76. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
79. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
80. Confederate general during the American Civil War who was defeated by Grant in the battle of Chattanooga (1817-1876).
82. A native-born Israeli.
83. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
84. A state in northwestern North America.
85. One of the Muslim people of Africa.
86. A city in northwestern Syria.
87. Any competition.
89. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
90. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
92. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
94. The month following July and preceding September.
98. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
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