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1. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
4. Soft lump or unevenness in a yarn.
8. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
12. God of love and erotic desire.
16. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. A tube with a small bowl at one end.
18. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
19. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
20. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
21. English pianist (1890-1965).
22. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
23. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
24. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
26. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
28. A genus of Mustelidae.
30. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
32. (dentistry) A filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place.
33. Being one more than fifty.
34. Presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible.
38. Wild ginger.
41. Relating to or containing acetic acid.
43. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
44. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
46. An associate degree in nursing.
47. The act of scanning.
48. An instance or single occasion for some event.
49. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
53. (used especially of persons) Having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age.
54. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
57. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
59. A city in northwestern Mexico.
61. An insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult.
63. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
64. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
66. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
67. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
68. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
74. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
75. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
76. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
80. Not easy.
82. Jordan's port.
85. A manicurist who trims the fingernails.
86. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
88. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
90. A local and well-defined elevation of the land.
91. Be seated.
92. A telegram sent abroad.
96. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
97. A city in the European part of Russia.
98. Of or relating to or involving an area.
99. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
100. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
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1. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
2. Virus parasitic in bacteria.
3. East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok.
4. Any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat.
5. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
6. A city is east central Sweden north northwest of Stockholm.
7. Genus of North American spring wildflowers.
8. Developed or executed with care and in minute detail.
9. To put down by force or authority.
10. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
11. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
12. Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood.
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. Informal terms for a mother.
15. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
25. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
31. The honeycreepers.
35. (spoken slang) Unfashionable and boring.
36. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
37. The position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape.
39. The act of soiling something.
40. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
42. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. A decree that prohibits something.
51. A person who refuses to comply.
52. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
55. Serving as or forming a base.
56. Highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era.
58. The second month of the Hindu calendar.
60. Make lighter or brighter.
62. One of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread.
65. (Old Testament) The guardian archangel of the Jews.
66. Developed or executed with care and in minute detail.
69. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
70. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
71. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
72. Cook in liquid.
73. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
77. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
78. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
79. A French abbot.
81. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
83. A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.
84. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
87. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
89. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
93. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
94. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
95. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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