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1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
9. Avatar of Vishnu.
13. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
16. Any high mountain.
17. A university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River north of Bangor.
18. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
19. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
20. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
21. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
23. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
25. United States photographer remembered for her portraits of rural workers during the Depression (1895-1965).
27. Important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop.
29. An informal term for a father.
30. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
32. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
33. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
34. One of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan.
36. Marked by the reception of pay.
38. An underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea v 1.
42. So scary as to cause chills and shudders.
44. Marry within one's own tribe or group.
47. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
48. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
50. (pathology) Tending to become more severe or wider in scope.
51. A small island.
53. Derive or receive pleasure from.
56. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
57. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
59. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
62. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
63. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
65. In addition.
68. Typical geese.
70. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
71. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
72. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
73. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
74. Fallow deer.
76. A state in northwestern North America.
78. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
82. Located on a side.
84. (informal) Exceptionally good.
86. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
90. A language group of the Hokan family.
92. Refuse to acknowledge.
94. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
95. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
96. A city in northwestern Switzerland.
98. On or toward the lee.
100. A kind of person.
101. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
102. Social insect living in organized colonies.
103. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
104. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
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1. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
2. An appearance of reflected light.
3. Dutch philosopher who espoused a pantheistic system (1632-1677).
4. A fellow male member of a youth gang.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. An island northwest of Wales.
7. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
8. The dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa.
9. A rare soft orange mineral consisting of arsenic sulphide.
10. A public promotion of some product or service.
11. Type genus of the Majidae.
12. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
13. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
14. Toward the mouth or oral region.
15. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
22. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
24. Give an education to.
26. Christian martyr.
28. Free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception.
31. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
35. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
37. Two items of the same kind.
39. (botany) Of some seeds.
40. A tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals.
41. Order of mammals having few or no teeth including.
43. A milk protein used in making e.g. plastics and adhesives.
45. A computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter.
46. A mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high).
49. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
52. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
54. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
55. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
58. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
60. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
61. An accidental happening.
64. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.
66. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
67. Twist or braid together, interlace.
69. A radically monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 16th Century.
70. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
75. Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).
76. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
77. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
80. Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight.
81. French psychologist remembered for his studies of the intellectual development of children (1857-1911).
83. To fix or set securely or deeply.
85. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
87. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
88. A telephone connection.
89. Kamarupan languages spoken in western Burma and Bangladesh and easternmost India.
91. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
93. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
97. Before noon.
99. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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