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1. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
4. An area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq.
9. Try to manage without help.
13. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
18. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
19. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
20. A fabric woven with lisle thread.
22. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
23. Used of a single unit or thing.
24. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
25. Tree of the genus Catalpa with large leaves and white flowers followed by long slender pods.
27. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food.
29. A genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
31. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
32. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. A doctor's degree in music.
38. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
42. Half the width of an em.
43. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
48. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
49. Used of decomposing oils or fats.
51. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
52. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
53. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
55. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
57. A woman religious.
58. Jordan's port.
60. Pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia.
62. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
63. In 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants.
65. Grayish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck.
67. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
68. An unofficial association of people or groups.
70. A public promotion of some product or service.
71. The sixth month of the civil year.
72. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
73. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
74. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
77. Not often.
82. The opening of a subject to public discussion and debate.
84. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
86. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
88. Common black European thrush.
92. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
96. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
97. English monk and scholar (672-735).
98. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
100. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
101. A river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea.
102. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
103. Not in good physical or mental health.
104. A doctor's degree in education.
105. Informal terms for a mother.
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1. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
2. An elaborate song for solo voice.
3. A Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s.
4. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
5. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
6. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
7. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
8. Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle).
9. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
10. (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.
11. A port city in western France on the Loire estuary.
12. Depressing in character or appearance.
13. A quantity of no importance.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
21. An herb with milky juice.
26. Appeal or request earnestly.
28. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. Declare or acknowledge to be true.
33. Wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi.
36. Small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit.
37. Accumulation in the blood of nitrogen-bearing waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine.
39. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
40. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages.
41. Gear for a horse.
44. Tropical Asian starlings.
45. An inhabitant of ancient Thebes.
46. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
47. The act of hitting vigorously.
50. A fine strong sheer silky fabric made of silk or rayon or nylon.
54. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
56. Type genus of the Podargidae.
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
64. A volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum.
66. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
69. A Mid-Atlantic state.
75. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
76. United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946).
78. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
79. A sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey.
80. Informal terms for a mother.
81. British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956).
83. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
85. Be obedient to.
87. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
89. The piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located).
90. A town in north central Oklahoma.
91. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
93. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
94. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
95. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
99. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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