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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
9. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
13. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
16. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
17. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
18. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
19. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
20. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
21. Of or relating to a state of sleep or hypnosis.
23. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
25. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
27. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
29. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
31. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
33. United States actor (born in Ireland).
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
40. Being one more than one.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. Bell attached to a sleigh, or to harness of horse pulling a sleigh.
45. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
52. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.
54. A light touch or stroke.
56. A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.
57. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
58. An informal term for a father.
60. Type genus of the Ranidae.
62. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
63. Able to read and write well.
65. Related on the mother's side.
67. 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.
68. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
69. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
71. City in Sudan.
74. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
76. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
77. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
78. Sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Mohammed during his life at Mecca and Medina.
81. A state in the eastern United States.
84. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
89. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
92. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
93. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
95. A postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory.
96. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text.
97. Largest known toad species.
98. A Loloish language.
100. A genus of Mustelidae.
101. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
102. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
103. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
104. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
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1. A milkshake made with malt powder.
2. Not only so, but.
3. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
4. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
5. A column of light (as from a beacon).
6. Pierce with a sharp stake or point.
7. A person who eats human flesh.
8. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
9. An informal term for a father.
10. A Russian river.
11. Wood of a pecan tree.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. Jordan's port.
14. Hang loosely or laxly.
15. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
22. A state in midwestern United States.
24. West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood.
26. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
28. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
30. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
32. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
34. The property of being extremely abundant.
36. In bed.
38. Pygmy marmosets.
39. A resident of Alabama.
43. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
44. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
46. Social status or position conferred by a system based on class.
47. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
48. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
49. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. Obvious and dull.
59. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
61. A quantity of no importance.
64. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
66. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
70. Type genus of the Gavidae.
72. Younger brother or sister.
73. Shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials.
74. Hang loosely or laxly.
75. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
79. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
80. A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.
82. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
83. A package of several things tied together for carrying or storing.
85. Material used to daub walls.
86. An onerous or difficult concern.
87. A major god.
88. British informal.
90. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
91. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
94. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
95. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
99. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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