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1. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
4. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
9. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
13. Strike suddenly and with force.
16. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
17. Of or like a feeble old woman.
18. Using speech rather than writing.
19. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
20. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
21. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
23. Someone employed by a gas company.
25. A United States youth subculture of the 1950s.
27. A bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases.
28. A French abbot.
29. United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981).
31. (Irish) The sea personified.
32. Of or relating to or near the nares.
34. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
37. That is to say.
39. Radiation lying in the ultraviolet range.
40. A republic in southwestern Asia.
43. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
47. An early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica.
49. Someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else.
51. A town in north central Oklahoma.
52. Cap that fits over the hub of a wheel.
55. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
56. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
59. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
60. A unit of pressure.
61. A Formosan language.
63. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
64. Someone who has red hair.
66. (archaic) Of persons.
69. English monk and scholar (672-735).
70. A period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday.
72. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
74. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
75. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
79. A small cake leavened with yeast.
82. Formed like a bacillus.
85. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
88. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
90. 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.
92. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
93. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
94. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
96. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
97. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
98. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
99. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
100. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
101. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
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1. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
2. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
3. A sudden short attack.
4. A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc.
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
6. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
7. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
8. A town in east central Missouri.
9. Person who makes a gift of property.
10. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
11. Italian violinist (1782-1840).
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. (voodooism) A spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body.
14. Jordan's port.
15. Sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat) section or component of something.
22. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
24. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn.
26. (botany) Divided into three lobs.
30. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
33. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
35. Disappear gradually.
36. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
38. An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes.
41. Tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes.
42. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
44. Strong snuff made from dark coarse tobacco.
45. A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end.
46. Tree frogs.
48. A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.
50. A bar of sand.
53. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
54. A weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts).
57. A resource.
58. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
62. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
65. A place where ships can take on or discharge cargo.
67. One of the three Furies.
68. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
71. A very slender natural or synthetic fiber.
73. Covered with paving material.
74. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
76. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
77. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
78. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
80. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
81. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
83. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
84. An inhabitant of Lappland.
86. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
87. God of love and erotic desire.
89. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
91. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
95. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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