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1. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
4. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
9. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
13. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds.
16. The month following March and preceding May.
17. (Sumerian) God of the air and king of the Sumerian gods.
18. Establish the validity of something.
19. Towards the side away from the wind.
20. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow.
25. A city in northwestern Syria.
28. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
29. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
30. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
32. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
34. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
35. Shining intensely.
38. A just detectable amount.
40. A fastener for a door or lid.
44. Tear or be torn violently.
45. An ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
49. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
50. Occurring at the beginning.
53. Having short a smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum.
55. A large and widespread genus varying in size from small shrubs to large trees.
56. Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation.
57. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
61. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
62. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
64. An implement used to erase something.
65. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
67. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
70. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
71. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
74. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
75. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
77. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
78. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
79. Free from liquid or moisture.
80. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
82. Lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific.
86. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
89. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
92. A primeval personification of air and breath.
93. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
95. Relating to the Urdu language.
97. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
98. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
99. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
100. 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).
101. A light touch or stroke.
102. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
103. The basic unit of money in Iran.
104. The highest level or degree attainable.
105. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
3. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
4. Of the blackest black.
5. An associate degree in nursing.
6. A lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph.
7. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
8. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
9. Respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing.
10. Any branch of Shinto other than Kokka.
11. Dyed with henna.
12. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
13. Wearing or provided with clothing.
14. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
15. A cooperative unit.
21. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
24. A technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing).
26. Tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes.
27. Used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders.
31. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
33. Take in a sail with a brail.
36. The literary intelligentsia.
37. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
39. A white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide.
41. Any of various Old World herbs of the genus Anchusa having one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers.
42. Austrian composer known for his compositions for voice and piano (1797-1828).
43. Small genus of western North American herbs similar to Lesquerella.
46. Colored with or as if with bister.
51. Garlic mayonnaise.
52. (Norse mythology) God of thunder and rain and farming.
54. A slight amount or degree of difference.
58. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
59. Not only so, but.
60. A motley assortment of things.
63. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
66. Relating to or resembling a carina.
67. Of the blackest black.
68. Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
69. A wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip.
70. Dyed with henna.
72. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
73. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
76. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
81. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
82. Unknown god.
83. Type genus of the Amiidae.
84. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
85. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
87. An ancient kingdom of southern Palestine with Jerusalem as its center.
88. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
90. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
91. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
94. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
96. The act of using.
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