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1. A unit of pressure.
4. Cause to be embarrassed.
9. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
13. An enclosed space.
16. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
17. (combining form) Indicating radiation or radioactivity.
18. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
19. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
20. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
21. Small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward.
22. With no effort to conceal.
23. The longest division of geological time.
24. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
26. Hindu sacred text instructing the Brahmins to perform the Vedic rituals.
29. The face or front of a building.
31. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
32. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
34. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
36. 36th President of the United States.
38. Type genus of the Bryaceae.
41. A theatrical performer.
44. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
48. A Mid-Atlantic state.
49. (Scotland) A landowner.
50. Type genus of the Percidae.
51. Elegant and stylish.
53. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
54. Type genus of the Podicipedidae.
56. Water frozen in the solid state.
57. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
59. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
60. An Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean.
63. Using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity.
67. An informal term for a father.
68. (informal) Of the highest quality.
70. Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.
71. Type genus of the Ranidae.
74. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
75. Cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain.
83. Tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw.
85. A merchant who sells men's clothing.
89. American novelist (1909-1955).
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. Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931).
93. A republic in central Europe.
96. Avatar of Vishnu.
98. A large quantity of written matter.
99. Two-year-old sheep.
100. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
101. Type genus of the Anatidae.
102. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. (used in combination or as a suffix) Able to withstand.
2. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
3. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
4. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
5. Capable of wounding.
6. The sixth month of the civil year.
7. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
8. A blind god.
9. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
10. The act of scanning.
11. Of or relating to a hair.
12. A doctor's degree in education.
13. Not subject to change or variation especially in behavior.
14. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
15. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
25. City in northeast Pakistan.
27. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
28. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
30. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
33. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
35. Greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant roselike flowers.
37. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
39. An imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead.
40. An ancient city is southern Greece.
42. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
43. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
45. Cut down on.
46. A system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region.
47. Seed again or anew.
52. Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism.
55. A cloth having a crisscross design.
58. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
62. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
64. A bottle with a stopper.
65. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
66. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
69. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
72. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
73. A radioactive transuranic element.
76. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
77. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
78. Jordan's port.
79. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
80. Low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage.
81. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
82. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
84. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
85. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
86. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
87. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
88. A plant lacking a permanent woody stem.
91. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
94. Before noon.
95. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
97. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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