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1. (informal) Roused to anger.
4. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
9. In bed.
13. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
16. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
17. Complacently or inanely foolish.
18. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
19. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
20. Curved in two directions (like the letter S).
22. Move out of a dock.
23. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
24. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel.
25. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
26. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
28. Clean or orderly.
30. A person's brother or sister.
31. A member of the Siouan people of the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
33. Lower in esteem.
36. Having relatively few calories.
40. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
42. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves.
43. French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834).
44. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
50. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
51. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
53. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
55. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
56. The piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located).
57. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
60. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
62. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
64. The basic monetary unit of Portugal.
65. 16 ounces.
66. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
67. A small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled.
68. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
69. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
71. A state in midwestern United States.
72. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
74. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
80. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
81. An act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification).
84. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
88. (Greek mythology) God of the heavens.
91. Be going to.
92. (of pitches) Made with the arm moving parallel to the ground.
94. A native American tent.
95. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
96. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
98. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
99. A branch of the Tai languages.
100. Inquire about.
101. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
102. Lacking excess flesh.
103. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. American Revolutionary leader from Virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights (1725-1792).
2. Possessing life.
4. Any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule.
5. Black tropical American cuckoo.
6. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
7. An associate degree in nursing.
8. Neither moral nor immoral.
9. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
10. Very close and convivial.
11. Enclose in, or as if in, a case "my feet were encased in mud.".
12. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
13. A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles.
14. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
15. A one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome.
21. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
27. Discrimination in favor of the able-bodied.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
34. Cut the head of.
35. One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.
37. The innermost membrane of an organ (especially the inner lining of an artery or vein or lymphatic vessel).
38. Terrestrial or epilithic ferns of tropical rain forests.
39. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
41. Type genus of the Alcedinidae.
46. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.
47. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
49. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle.
52. A genus of Pyralidae.
54. Performed speedily and without formality.
58. The German state.
59. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
63. Swedish economist (1898-1987).
70. A member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota.
71. A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles.
73. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
74. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
75. Relating to bone or to the skeleton.
76. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
77. The act of refusing a request.
79. An autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century.
80. A drawing illustrating the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes.
82. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
83. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
85. One who works hard at boring tasks.
86. One thousandth of a second.
87. A genus of Mustelidae.
89. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
90. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
93. Used of a single unit or thing.
97. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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