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1. A depression in an otherwise level surface.
4. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
9. A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck.
13. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
16. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
17. (biology) Having or resembling wings.
18. The capital of Western Samoa.
19. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
20. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
22. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
24. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
25. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
26. Very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches.
28. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
30. The superior of a group of nuns.
32. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
34. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
38. A state in New England.
39. Disabled in the feet or legs.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. (rare) Of or occurring in summer.
48. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
49. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
50. Type genus of the Gliridae.
51. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia.
54. The capital of Turkey.
55. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
58. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
59. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
60. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
63. One of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi.
67. Lean end of the neck.
68. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
69. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
73. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
75. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high).
78. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
79. Aroused or activated.
82. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
86. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
88. Lessen the density or solidity (of a substance).
91. 20 aspers equal 1 kuru.
93. An unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang.
95. Used of old persons or old trees.
97. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
98. The month following February and preceding April.
99. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
101. (nontechnical usage) A tiny piece of anything.
102. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
103. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
104. An informal term for a father.
105. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
106. A small cake leavened with yeast.
107. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
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1. An enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial.
2. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
3. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
4. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
5. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
6. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
7. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
8. God of the sky.
9. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
10. Jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds.
11. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
12. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
13. Ground snakes.
14. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
15. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
21. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
23. An associate degree in nursing.
27. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. An autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century.
31. God of wealth and love.
33. World's longest river (4187 miles).
35. Lacking gonads.
36. The female or generative principle.
37. Being one more than one hundred.
40. The body of people who lead a group.
41. Large brightly crested bird of Africa.
44. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
45. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust.
46. Blood-sucking African fly.
47. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
52. 16 ounces.
53. A wind instrument.
56. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
57. Jordan's port.
61. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
62. The act of scanning.
64. A government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong.
65. God of the Underworld.
66. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
71. A biological unit consisting of a nucleus and the body of cytoplasm with which it interacts.
72. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
74. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
76. City in northeast Pakistan.
77. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
80. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
81. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
83. A drama set to music.
84. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
85. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
87. Using speech rather than writing.
89. A small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid.
90. Large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.
92. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
94. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
96. A doctor's degree in education.
100. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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