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1. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
4. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
8. Slightly open.
12. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
16. Being one more than six.
17. Type genus of the Anatidae.
18. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
19. A state in the western United States.
20. Either extremity of something that has length.
21. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
22. Advanced in years.
23. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
24. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
26. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
28. Small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes.
30. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
35. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
37. A fraudulent business scheme.
42. A thin strip (wood or metal).
46. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
47. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
50. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
51. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
52. A powerful light with reflector.
54. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
55. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
57. Assail again.
59. A small lump or protuberance.
60. British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature (1888-1965).
62. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
63. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
64. English monk and scholar (672-735).
66. Morally degraded.
67. A large faint constellation in the southern hemisphere containing most of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
69. Of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations.
70. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
71. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
73. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
75. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
77. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
80. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
86. A large number or amount.
90. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
93. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
95. A slender double-reed instrument.
96. The cry made by sheep.
97. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
98. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
99. A Loloish language.
100. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
101. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
102. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
103. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
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1. American civil rights worker in Mississippi.
2. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
3. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
4. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
5. (Babylonian) The sky god.
6. Xerophytic evergreen shrubs.
7. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
8. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
9. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
10. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
11. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
12. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
13. A city in central New York.
14. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
15. (physics) A deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves.
25. Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover Tasmania and New Zealand (1603-1659).
27. 10 grams.
29. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
31. Large shrimp sauteed in oil or butter and garlic.
34. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
36. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
38. A disputant who quibbles.
39. Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).
40. A quantity of no importance.
41. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
43. A painter or drawer of portraits.
44. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
45. 100 tambala equal 1 Kwacha.
48. Expose to fresh air, as of old clothing.
49. A city in southeastern South Korea.
53. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
56. A particular kind (as to appearance).
58. 36th President of the United States.
61. The ending of a series or sequence.
65. The month following July and preceding September.
68. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
72. Earlier in time.
74. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
76. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
78. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
79. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
81. The sixth month of the civil year.
82. A small cake leavened with yeast.
83. A French abbot.
84. A sudden short attack.
85. An informal term for a father.
87. An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down.
88. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
89. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
91. A tight-fitting headdress.
92. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
94. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
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