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1. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
4. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
8. By bad luck.
12. Money in the form of bills or coins.
16. A strong emotion.
17. An excavation that is (usually) filled with water.
18. A traditional story accepted as history.
19. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
20. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
21. Of or relating to the Olympic Games.
23. Special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc..
24. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
26. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
28. English monk and scholar (672-735).
29. The basic unit of money in Paraguay.
31. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
33. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
35. The basic unit of money in Panama.
37. First in order of importance.
38. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
40. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
41. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
43. (archaic) Of persons.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. Hidden and difficult to see.
48. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
51. Eat noisily.
55. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
56. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
58. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
60. Fair organized by publishers or booksellers to promote the sale of books.
63. Genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers.
64. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
65. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
68. A bureaucrat who levies taxes.
69. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
73. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
74. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
76. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
77. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
78. A city in northern Nigeria.
84. God of love and erotic desire.
88. Purify by means of a ritual.
90. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
92. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
93. Become ground down or deteriorate.
95. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
97. (informal) Of the highest quality.
98. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
99. The friend of Phintias who pledged his life that Phintias would return (4th century BC).
100. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
101. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
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1. A native American tent.
2. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
3. A member of the people in southeastern India (Andhra Pradesh) who speak the Telugu language.
4. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
5. Having a pair of equal and opposite charges.
6. A boat with a flat bottom for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).
7. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
8. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
9. Primitive evergreen mosslike plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles.
10. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
11. (physics) A deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves.
12. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
13. In a state of sleep.
14. (biology) Shed at an early stage of development.
15. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
22. Antacid (trade name Prilosec) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach.
25. A filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works.
27. The cry made by sheep.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. Clouding of the natural lens of the eye.
34. A small round body of protein in a cell nucleus.
36. Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast.
38. Shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks.
39. A mining town in southern Wales.
42. Any high mountain.
44. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
47. A part that is cut out or is intended to be cut out.
49. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
50. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
52. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
53. A semiautomatic rifle.
54. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
57. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
59. A inexpensive showy collectibles.
61. German dramatist whose works concern people torn between reason and emotion (1777-1811).
62. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
66. 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.
67. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
70. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
71. The bottom of a sea or ocean.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
79. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
80. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
81. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
82. Informal terms for a mother.
83. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
85. Type genus of the Anatidae.
86. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
87. On or toward the lee.
89. The capital and largest city of Japan.
91. A partially opened flower.
94. Half the width of an em.
96. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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