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1. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
4. Fastened with stitches.
9. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
13. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. With rapid movements.
18. An opening into or through something.
19. A rapid bustling commotion.
20. Timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial.
22. A B vitamin essential for the normal function of the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract.
24. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
25. Appeal or request earnestly.
26. An obsolete kind of container used for distillation.
29. A resort city in southern Ukraine on the Black Sea.
30. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
31. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
33. An associate degree in nursing.
34. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
36. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
39. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
42. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
44. A port in southwestern Scotland.
46. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
47. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
49. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
51. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
54. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
57. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
58. The 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
60. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
61. Urged social reform in 19th century England.
63. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
64. Herbs of temperate regions.
68. A state in midwestern United States.
69. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
72. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
74. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
75. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike.
77. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds.
79. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
82. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
84. Income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time.
86. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
90. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
91. Make less active or intense.
94. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
96. An associate degree in applied science.
97. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
98. The capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa.
99. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
100. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
101. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
102. A sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey.
103. A small cake leavened with yeast.
104. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.
2. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
3. Sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat) section or component of something.
4. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
5. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
6. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
7. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
8. The brightest star in Cygnus.
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
10. An extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization.
11. A short light metallic sound.
12. Adult female chicken.
13. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
14. The sixth month of the civil year.
15. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
21. An analgesic for mild pain.
23. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
27. A person who lives and works on land.
28. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
32. One million periods per second.
35. A region of Malaysia on northwestern Borneo.
37. Loud confused noise from many sources.
38. A person employed to watch for something to happen.
40. The first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac.
41. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
43. Fallow deer.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
48. Opinion or judgment.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
53. Show in, or as in, a picture.
55. A thermionic vacuum tube having three electrodes.
56. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
59. Ground snakes.
62. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
65. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
66. Obvious and dull.
67. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
70. An artist of consummate skill.
71. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
73. Genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns.
76. Constituting the undiminished entirety.
77. An informal term for a father.
78. Anthropologist and linguist.
80. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
81. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
83. The content of cognition.
84. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
85. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
87. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
88. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
89. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
92. The cry made by sheep.
93. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
95. A bachelor's degree in theology.
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