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1. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
5. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
9. God of death.
13. A master's degree in business.
16. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
17. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
18. In bed.
19. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
20. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
21. Having worth or merit or value.
23. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
25. A republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola.
27. Having hair on the cheeks and chin.
28. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
29. Having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation.
31. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
32. A large fleet.
37. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
40. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
44. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
45. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
46. Capital city of the Piemonte region of northwestern Italy.
47. By bad luck.
50. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
53. The beach at a seaside resort.
54. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
56. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
58. A local computer network for communication between computers.
59. The capital and largest city of Kenya.
62. (of persons) Neat and smart in appearance.
64. An inspection of the accounting procedures and records by a trained accountant.
65. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
68. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
70. Having a relatively high resistance to flow.
72. Dilatation or distension of a hollow organ.
74. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
77. Cause to lose one's nerve.
79. The sound made by corvine birds.
80. Pertaining to animals or animal life or action.
81. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
83. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.
87. The capital and largest city of Japan.
89. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
91. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
92. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
93. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
95. Not widely known.
97. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
98. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
99. A particular environment or walk of life.
100. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
101. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
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1. A framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame.
2. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
3. God of fire.
4. Highly seasoned cut of smoked beef.
5. A joke that seems extremely funny.
6. (Philippine) A dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish.
7. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
8. Formally making a person known to another or to the public.
9. Small genus of delicate mossy bog plants having white or violet flowers.
10. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
11. (England) The Regency was the period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent during George III's periods of insanity.
12. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
13. Wildly disordered.
14. A caress with the lips.
15. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
22. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
24. Of or pertaining to adnexa.
26. A nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. A roll of ribbon.
34. Half woman and half fish.
35. The commonest type of solidified lava.
36. Consider as ideal.
38. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
39. The properties characteristic of the male sex.
41. A period of time spent sleeping.
42. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
43. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
48. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
49. French ruling dynasty from 1328 to 1589.
51. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
52. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
55. The quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others.
57. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
60. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
61. Develop under favorable conditions, such as germs and bacteria.
63. Having a claw or claws.
66. Of or relating to or characteristic of Monaco or its people.
67. Leatherleaf ferns.
69. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
71. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
73. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
75. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
76. Found pleasant or attractive.
78. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
82. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
84. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
85. A French abbot.
86. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
88. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
90. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
94. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
96. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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