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1. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
5. The state of owing money.
9. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
13. A light touch or stroke.
16. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
17. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
18. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
19. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
20. Affected manners intended to impress others.
21. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
23. Curved rodlike motile bacterium.
25. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
27. Pain resulting from rapid change in pressure.
29. Wood of a sumac.
30. Free from fear or doubt.
32. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
33. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
34. God of love and erotic desire.
35. A building where prostitutes are available.
37. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
39. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
41. Unknown god.
42. A Hindu prince or king in India.
46. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
53. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
54. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
56. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
59. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
61. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.
64. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
65. 1 species.
66. A state in midwestern United States.
67. A loud utterance.
68. The capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
70. Having no parts resembling rays.
73. No longer in existence.
75. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
77. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
78. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
80. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
82. Pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance.
89. An infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages.
92. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
94. (Judaism) A period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative.
95. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
96. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
98. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
100. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
101. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
102. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
103. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
104. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
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1. American Revolutionary patriot.
2. The amount a salary is increased.
3. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
4. (law) A dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household.
5. God of the underworld.
6. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. A matador or one of the supporting team during a bull fight.
9. Bearing or characterized by a blade or sword.
10. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. The herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis.
12. King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975).
13. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
14. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
15. French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different races of people.
22. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
24. Gnu goats.
26. A large fleet.
28. A branch of the Tai languages.
31. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
36. A boy or man.
38. Genus of deciduous shrubs or small trees of eastern Mediterranean regions and tropical Asia.
40. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
43. Any of various plants of the genus Albuca having large clusters of pale yellow flowers.
44. Capital and largest city of Indonesia.
45. Someone who is skilled at analyzing data.
47. A quick run.
49. Jordan's port.
50. Displaying a red color.
51. Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire.
55. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
57. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
58. The cry made by sheep.
60. A small bone.
62. United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902).
63. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
69. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
70. God of the underworld.
71. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
72. Characteristic of a baby.
73. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
74. A byproduct of inflammation.
76. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
79. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
81. Type genus of the Caviidae.
83. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
84. A protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers.
85. Avatar of Vishnu.
86. Long, usually formal, woman's dress.
87. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
88. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
90. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
91. Adopted in order to deceive.
93. An enclosed space.
94. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
97. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
99. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
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