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1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. A constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Octans.
8. The compass point that is one point south of southeast.
12. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
16. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
17. A couple who both have careers and no children.
18. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
19. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
20. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
21. A town in western Kentucky on the Ohio River.
23. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
24. English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964).
26. Violently angry and destructive behavior.
28. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
29. 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.
31. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
33. A releasing factor that accelerates the secretion of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary body.
35. British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925).
39. A dark purplish red.
43. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
45. A mountain range in northern Kashmir.
46. Fallow deer.
47. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
48. The bill in a restaurant.
50. Informal terms for a mother.
51. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
52. An elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus.
55. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
56. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
57. Call upon in supplication.
60. A mug intended for serving beer.
63. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
65. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
66. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
67. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
69. Someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police.
72. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
73. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
75. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
78. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
82. Largest known toad species.
88. Thrown together in a pile.
89. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
92. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
93. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion.
94. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
96. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
97. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
98. Leather with a napped surface.
99. A slender double-reed instrument.
100. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
101. Before noon.
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1. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
2. Offering fun and gaiety.
3. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
4. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
5. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
6. Not imagined even in a dream.
7. Gull-like jaeger of northern seas.
8. A place where ships can take on or discharge cargo.
9. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
10. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
11. A high-pitched noise resembling a human cry.
12. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
13. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
14. Avatar of Vishnu.
15. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
22. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
25. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
27. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
30. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
32. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
34. Small genus of shrubs and subshrubs of western United States having flowers that change color as they mature.
36. The largest and southernmost island in the Marianas.
37. A fibrous amphibole.
38. A dicotyledonous genus of the family Ericaceae.
40. A motley assortment of things.
41. A green transparent form of beryl.
42. A language spoken by a Malaysian people on Formosa.
44. Jordan's port.
49. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
53. (British) Seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater.
54. Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance.
58. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
59. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
61. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
62. A disorderly outburst or tumult.
64. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
68. Canadian writer noted for his analyses of the mass media (1911-1980).
70. The magnetic field strength 1 cm from a unit magnetic pole.
71. Surpass in speed.
72. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
74. A public promotion of some product or service.
76. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
77. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
79. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
80. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
81. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
83. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
84. A Loloish language.
85. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
86. Ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse.
87. Drive away by crying "shoo!".
90. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
91. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
95. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
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