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1. Immediately past.
5. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
9. Distant in either space or time.
13. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
16. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
17. An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down.
18. Type genus of the Ranidae.
19. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
20. A primeval personification of air and breath.
21. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
22. Crowd or pack to capacity.
23. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. A republic in western South America.
33. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
35. An associate degree in nursing.
41. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
42. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
45. A small amount of residue.
46. The sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing a developing bud.
49. A genus of Cichlidae.
51. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
52. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
53. A university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River north of Bangor.
55. (Akkadian) A goddess.
58. Any plant of the genus Inula.
60. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
61. Afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement.
62. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
63. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
66. Bound or secured closely.
67. Type genus of Geastraceae.
70. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
71. An approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth.
73. Touched by rot or decay.
75. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
76. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
78. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
79. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
85. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
89. A farewell remark.
92. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
93. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
94. Closed with a lace.
96. Being seven more than fifty.
98. A strong emotion.
99. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
100. Lower in esteem.
101. A river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea.
102. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. The highest level or degree attainable.
3. The fifth month of the civil year.
4. Any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music.
5. (informal) Of the highest quality.
6. (informal) Someone whose style is out of fashion.
7. A genus of Ploceidae.
8. (used pejoratively) Out of fashion.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. A language of Australian aborigines.
11. A collection of excerpts from a literary work.
12. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
13. Stalk of a moss capsule.
14. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
15. A city in northern India.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
29. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
32. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
34. Semi-parasitic herb with purple or white or pink flowers.
36. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
37. Having equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles having opposite signs and separated by a small distance.
38. Structure forming the transverse part of a cruciform church.
39. Engage in a rehearsal (of).
40. Gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers.
43. Leaf bugs.
44. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
47. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
48. A city of central China.
50. 1 species.
54. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
56. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
57. A member of a legation.
59. Lie adjacent to another.
64. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
65. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
68. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
69. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
72. A cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the surface of the sun.
73. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
74. A state in midwestern United States.
77. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
80. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
81. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
82. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
83. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
84. A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another.
86. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
87. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
88. In bed.
90. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
91. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
95. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
97. That is to say.
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