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1. A vigorous blow.
5. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
9. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
13. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
16. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
17. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
18. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
19. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
20. A large quantity of written matter.
21. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
23. The state of existing and being localized in space.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma).
29. The twelfth month of the civil year.
30. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
32. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
34. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
35. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
38. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
40. A slender double-reed instrument.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. A group of musicians playing or singing together.
46. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
49. Flat tableland with steep edges.
50. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
51. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
53. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
54. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
56. An oral antibiotic (trade name Cipro) used against serious bacterial infections of the skin or respiratory tract of urinary tract or bones or joints.
58. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
60. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
61. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
62. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
64. A genus of birds of the family Alcedinidae.
65. A republic in eastern Africa.
67. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
69. In operation or operational.
70. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
71. French painter (born in Russia) noted for his imagery and brilliant colors (1887-1985).
76. A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.
78. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
79. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
83. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text.
85. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
86. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
88. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
92. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
95. A doctor's degree in education.
96. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
97. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
99. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
100. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
101. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
102. A city of central China.
103. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
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1. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
2. On or toward the lee.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
5. An associate degree in applied science.
6. Often cultivated for the decorative foliage.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.
9. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
12. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
13. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
14. United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975).
15. English writer on games (1672-1769).
22. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
24. Prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules.
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. Greek god of light.
31. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
33. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
36. Lower the grade of something.
37. A person who passes by casually or by chance.
39. Corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (Southern).
42. Leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion.
44. Improved or corrected by critical editing.
45. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc..
47. Nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication.
48. 100 tambala equal 1 Kwacha.
52. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
55. Ground snakes.
57. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
63. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
66. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
68. Affected by ague.
72. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
73. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
74. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
75. A vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting.
77. (trademark) An antacid.
80. The address where a person lives.
81. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
82. Extracted from a source of supply as of minerals from the earth.
84. Cause to lose one's nerve.
87. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
89. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
90. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
91. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
93. The airforce of Great Britain.
94. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
98. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
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