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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. State in northeastern India.
9. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
16. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
17. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
18. The protruding part of the lower jaw.
19. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
20. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
21. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
22. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
23. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. 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.
29. Battle in which the ruler of Afghanistan defeated the Mahrattas in 1761.
32. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
33. Being nine more than ninety.
35. A decree that prohibits something.
36. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
39. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
42. Informal terms for a mother.
44. Small genus of Eurasian herbs.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. An informal term for a father.
50. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
52. Unknown god.
55. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
56. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
59. Not in good physical or mental health.
60. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
62. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
64. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
65. Spaced apart.
67. Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions.
69. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
70. A great raja.
72. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
74. Colored or impregnated with dye.
76. Any of the celestial bodies (other than comets or satellites) that revolve around the sun in the solar system.
78. The capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa.
83. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
84. Of or relating to the class Insecta.
90. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
91. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
93. The term during which some position is held.
94. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
95. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
96. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
98. The basic unit of money in Peru.
99. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
100. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
101. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
102. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. A rapid bustling commotion.
5. Coarse fabric used for bags or sacks.
6. Woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat.
7. Jordan's port.
8. Sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America.
9. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
10. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
11. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
12. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
13. Cut the head of.
14. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
15. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
25. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
28. Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing.
30. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
31. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
34. Tree of the genus Catalpa with large leaves and white flowers followed by long slender pods.
37. How long something has existed.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. (of exocrine glands) Producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion.
41. Portable bulletproof shelter.
43. A Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam.
45. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
46. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
48. An unofficial association of people or groups.
51. To come or go into.
53. (used of persons or the military) Characterized by having or bearing arms.
54. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
57. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
58. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.
61. The sixth month of the civil year.
63. The overhang at the lower edge of a roof.
66. A small unit serving as the nucleus of a larger political movement.
68. Mostly tropical stinging herbs or trees.
71. A benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin.
72. Sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America.
73. Russian anarchist.
74. Cut the head of.
75. A soft silvery metallic element.
77. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
79. Administer an oil or ointment to.
80. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
81. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
82. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
85. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
86. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
87. The goddess of the moon.
88. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
89. An investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate asssets.
92. The cry made by sheep.
97. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
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