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1. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
4. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
9. A French abbot.
13. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
16. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
17. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
18. Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
21. Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding.
23. (horseshoes) The throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake.
25. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
27. Resin of the kauri trees of N Zealand.
29. A quantity of no importance.
30. Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech).
31. Put in the mind of someone.
32. Of or relating to the palm of the hand or to the area at the base of the thumb.
35. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
36. Posing no difficulty.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. Of or relating to or exhibiting isomerism.
44. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
45. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
47. Antiquity that as survived from the distant past.
50. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
52. United States composer (born in France) whose music combines dissonance with complex rhythms and the use of electronic techniques (1883-1965).
53. Choose and follow.
54. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
55. A public promotion of some product or service.
57. Argue or speak in defense of.
59. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
60. A red ocher formerly used as a pigment.
63. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
64. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
65. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
66. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
69. Lessen the density or solidity (of a substance).
72. An Asian country under the control of China.
74. Capital and largest city of Indonesia.
76. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
79. Being on the left side.
81. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
82. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
83. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
85. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
89. A tranquilizer (trade name Navane) used to treat schizophrenia.
92. Having a pair of equal and opposite charges.
93. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
94. Water frozen in the solid state.
95. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
97. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
99. The eighth month of the civil year.
100. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
101. A set of two similar things considered as a unit.
102. A unit of length equal to 3 feet.
103. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
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1. One thousandth of a second.
2. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
3. An angry disturbance.
4. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
5. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
6. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
7. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
8. Having the same or similar characteristics.
9. (in ancient Rome) A religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy.
10. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
11. Suffering from bulimia n.
12. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
13. A nation in northern North America.
14. In bed.
15. God of death.
22. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
24. Segmented worms.
26. A medium (art or business) that disseminates moving pictures.
28. Temperamentally disinclined to talk.
33. Any of several free-flowering tropical or subtropical shrubs of the genus Hamelia.
34. Send something via a facsimile machine.
37. Steal in a store.
38. Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea.
41. Toward the mouth or oral region.
42. Being nothing more than specified.
43. (of e.g. celestial bodies) Above the horizon.
46. Gone by.
48. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
49. A grounder that rolls along the infield.
51. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
56. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
58. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
61. A city of southeastern Mexico.
62. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
67. A river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea.
68. (informal British usage) Aggravation or aggression.
70. A Loloish language.
71. Genus of low-growing mat-forming New Zealand plants.
72. A nation in northern North America.
73. A state in midwestern United States.
75. Someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision.
77. With rapid movements.
78. Not ever.
80. Allowing passage in and out.
81. A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana.
84. Common Indian weaverbird.
86. The time during which someone's life continues.
87. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
88. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
90. A period of time spent sleeping.
91. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
96. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
98. A doctor's degree in religion.
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