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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
12. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
16. Cut off from a whole.
17. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
18. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
19. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
20. Consisting of the musk-ox.
22. Wearing protective mail.
24. Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).
25. An aromatic balsam.
26. Lower in esteem.
28. Tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw.
31. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
33. Largest city in North Dakota.
34. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
39. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
44. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
46. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
51. Of girls or women.
53. English psychologist who collaborated with I. A. Richards in designing Basic English (1889-1957).
54. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
55. The eleventh month of the civil year.
56. A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty.
58. A city in central Georgia southeast of Atlanta.
60. A French abbot.
62. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
63. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
64. (botany) Relating to or attached to the axis.
65. A female domestic.
66. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
68. Very dark black.
71. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
72. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
73. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
78. The month following March and preceding May.
81. English geologist remembered as the first person to recognize that dinosaurs were reptiles (1790-1852).
85. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
86. Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells.
90. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
91. Deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America.
94. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
95. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
96. Family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper leaf surface.
97. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
98. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
99. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
100. An elaborate song for solo voice.
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1. A disinclination to work or exert yourself.
2. Genus of African timber trees.
3. Liquid that is spilled.
4. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
5. A tradesman who sells hosiery (and (in England) knitwear).
6. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
7. The capital of Mali.
8. Anchovy pear tree.
9. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
10. American novelist (1909-1955).
11. A slight amount or degree of difference.
12. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
13. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
14. A state of confusion and disorderliness.
15. A reason for wanting something done.
21. Aspirin coated with a substance capable of neutralizing acid (trade name Bufferin).
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
29. The cry made by sheep.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
35. Any of a class of weakly acidic organic compounds.
36. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
37. Of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips.
38. Border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet.
40. Drug (trade name Isuprel) used to treat bronchial asthma and to stimulate the heart.
41. Of or relating to the elbow.
42. A herder or swine.
43. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
45. Flesh of any of various freshwater fishes of the families Centrarchidae of North America or Cyprinidae of Europe.
47. The basic unit of money in Sierra Leone.
48. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
49. Fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores.
50. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
52. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
57. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
59. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
61. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
67. Letter carrier's shoulder bag.
68. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
69. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
70. A small cake leavened with yeast.
74. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
75. The state that precedes vomiting.
76. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
77. A device (used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together v 1.
79. Wood of a pecan tree.
80. Short and fat.
82. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
83. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
84. A Russian river.
87. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
88. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
89. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
92. Term of address for a man.
93. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
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