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1. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
4. A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle.
8. The highest level or degree attainable.
12. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
16. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
17. A man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength.
18. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
19. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
20. Large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste.
22. Deep-dish meat and vegetable pie or a meat stew with dumplings.
24. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
25. The imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC.
26. The basic unit of money in Yemen.
28. Used by Maoris for thatching.
30. Baby bed with high sides.
32. Coarse jute fabric.
33. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
35. Having or localized centrally at a focus.
37. The basic unit of money in Iran.
40. The cry made by sheep.
43. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
47. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
48. A member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Georgia and eastern Alabama and constituting the core of the Creek Confederacy.
50. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
51. Express in speech.
53. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
54. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
55. A case for containing a set of articles.
56. Being one more than nine.
57. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
60. Greek mythology.
63. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
65. Of or relating to or involving an area.
66. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
67. A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
68. King of Wessex.
71. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
72. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
73. A state in northwestern North America.
75. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
78. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
82. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
87. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
88. A Chadic language spoken in the Mandara mountains in Cameroon.
92. A three-year law degree.
94. In bed.
96. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
97. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
98. Brittle flat bread eaten at Passover.
99. With no effort to conceal.
100. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
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1. The location of something surrounded by other things.
2. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
3. An island of central Hawaii.
4. Small tropical flea.
5. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
6. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
7. A member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona.
8. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
9. Wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs.
10. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
11. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
12. Make someone convulse with laughter.
13. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
14. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
15. Behave carelessly or indifferently.
21. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
23. Belonging to some prior time.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
31. These words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence.
34. A vigorous blow.
36. Of or like a cecum.
38. Made difficult or slow.
39. Of legislation.
41. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
42. Small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters.
44. (chemistry) Relating to or containing an alkali.
45. Epithet of Siva.
46. The brightest star in Scorpius.
49. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
52. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
58. Divulge information or secrets.
59. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
61. A secret look.
62. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
64. Unwisely talking too much.
69. German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716).
70. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
77. Jordan's port.
79. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
80. A French abbot.
81. Type genus of the Amiidae.
83. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
84. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
85. The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
86. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
89. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
90. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
91. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
93. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
95. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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