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1. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
4. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
9. A sudden very loud noise.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
16. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
17. Intense feelings of suffering.
18. The basic unit of money on Malta.
19. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
20. Of or relating to or characteristic of Monaco or its people.
22. Large American feline resembling a lion.
24. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
25. A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.
26. Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold.
28. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. Conforming to truth.
32. (Greek mythology) A great musician.
34. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
36. A state in New England.
37. (trademark) A light plastic disk about 10 inches in diameter.
39. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
40. 16 ounces.
41. An awkward stupid person.
43. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
44. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
48. (prefix) Within.
53. make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow.
54. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
55. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
56. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
57. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
59. Lacking in strength or firmness or resilience.
61. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
64. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
65. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
66. Type genus of the Majidae.
67. A city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound south of Seattle.
68. A block of absorbent material saturated with ink.
70. A detested person.
71. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
73. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
74. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
77. The time during which someone's life continues.
81. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
83. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
87. An honorary arts degree.
89. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
92. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
93. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
96. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
97. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
98. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
100. A cgs unit of work or energy.
101. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
102. (Irish) Goddess.
103. A small cake leavened with yeast.
104. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
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1. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
2. Absent without permission.
3. The doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element.
4. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
5. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
6. A photograph taken from a distance.
7. An associate degree in nursing.
8. English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384).
9. A slight indication.
10. A category in some early taxonomies.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Fortification consisting of a low wall.
13. A linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons.
14. A farewell remark.
15. (with `in') Guardianship over.
21. Greek god of light.
23. A doctor's degree in optometry.
27. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
29. A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk.
31. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
35. Type genus of the Gentianaceae.
38. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
42. The territory of Athens in ancient Greece.
45. An elongated leather strip (or or strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position.
46. A quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep.
47. Climbing salamanders.
49. Chipmunks of eastern North America.
50. (medicine) Having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course.
51. (linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed.
52. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
58. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
60. The basic unit of money in Macao.
62. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
63. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
69. Of people.
72. Employed in accomplishing something.
75. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
76. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
78. (of eggs) No longer edible.
79. Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches.
80. A villainous Jew in Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist".
82. Jordan's port.
84. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
85. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
86. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
88. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
90. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
91. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
94. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
95. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
96. Preferred above all others and treated with partiality.
99. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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