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1. A decree that prohibits something.
4. Smallest merganser and most expert diver.
8. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
16. How long something has existed.
17. Engage or hire for work.
18. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
19. Common Indian weaverbird.
20. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
21. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
23. Slightly open.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
29. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
30. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington (1755-1828).
32. United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909).
35. A small amount (especially of food or wine).
40. United States sculptor (1860-1936).
43. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
44. The convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow place.
48. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
49. Ulcerated chilblain on the heel.
50. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. A mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture).
56. (of molten metal or glass) Formed by pouring or pressing into a mold n 1.
57. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
59. Free from liquid or moisture.
60. A portable brazier that burns charcoal and has a grill for cooking.
62. The capital and largest city of Nepal.
67. The fatty flesh of eel.
68. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
69. A slender double-reed instrument.
73. Deciduous shrub widely cultivated for its white or pink or red flowers.
74. Flat tableland with steep edges.
76. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
77. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
82. The Fate who determines the length of the thread of life.
85. Greek mythology.
87. The basic unit of money on Malta.
88. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
89. A worker in charge of a lock (on a canal).
92. A strongly made box for holding money or valuables.
94. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
96. A new branch.
98. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
99. Used of a single unit or thing.
100. English clergyman who (with John Henry Newman and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford Movement (1792-1866).
101. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng.
102. (Irish) The sea personified.
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1. Related to or located at the back.
2. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
3. Clean or orderly.
4. The female or generative principle.
5. Elephant seals.
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells.
8. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
9. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
10. Admit anew.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
14. A bluish shade of green.
15. United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961).
25. Type genus of the family Ostreidae.
27. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
28. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
31. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
33. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
34. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
36. The quality of being alien.
37. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
38. A mournful poem.
39. Make anew.
41. The occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow.
42. In a cheap manner.
45. Smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed.
46. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
47. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
51. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
52. Someone who drives racing cars at high speeds.
55. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
58. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
63. A member of the Moslem dynasty that ruled India until 1857.
64. Bushy herb of tropical Asia grown for its yellow or pink to scarlet blooms that resemble the hibiscus.
65. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
66. Wild and domestic cattle.
70. Proceed or issue forth, as from a source.
71. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
72. (archaic) Of persons.
75. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
78. A formal expression of praise.
79. A tort consisting of false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person.
80. Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed.
81. A bureaucrat who levies taxes.
83. Very dark black.
84. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
86. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
90. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
91. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
93. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
95. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
97. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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