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1. A partially opened flower.
4. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
8. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
17. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
18. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
19. The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
20. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
22. Highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide.
23. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
24. Italian violin maker and grandson of Andrea Guarneri (1687?-1745).
26. A stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle.
28. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
32. A metal urn with a spigot at the base.
36. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
37. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
41. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
42. Cephalopods having two gills.
46. A quantity of no importance.
47. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
49. The Destroyer.
50. (Roman mythology) God of love.
51. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
52. Of or relating to the system for delivering mail.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
57. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
60. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
61. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
63. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
65. The fourth month of the civil year.
67. An informal term for a father.
68. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
69. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
74. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
77. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
79. A city in central Alabama on the Alabama river.
82. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
84. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
86. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
89. Form or weave into a braid or braids.
90. Someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest.
92. A dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta.
93. An extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America).
97. An associate degree in applied science.
98. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
100. On, to, or at the top.
102. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
103. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland.
104. Showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness.
105. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
106. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
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1. Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts.
2. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
3. Fallow deer.
4. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
5. Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody.
6. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
7. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
8. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
9. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
10. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
11. A distinguishing feature of one's personal nature.
12. City in central Iran.
13. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
14. A French abbot.
15. Made of fir or pine.
21. A light roll rich with eggs and butter and somewhat sweet.
25. The month following October and preceding December.
27. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
29. The month following March and preceding May.
30. Genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids having striking axillary racemes of yellow to green spiderlike flowers with long slender sepals and warty lips.
31. A vasodilator (trade name Loniten) used to treat severe hypertension.
33. Erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender.
34. Lead someone in the wrong direction.
35. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
38. Avatar of Vishnu.
39. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
40. Provide commentary for a film, for example.
43. A road that takes traffic around the edge of a town.
44. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
45. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
48. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
56. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
58. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
59. Adapt anew.
62. An insane person.
64. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
66. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
70. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
73. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943).
75. Largest known toad species.
76. A native of ancient Troy.
78. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
80. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula.
81. Restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal.
83. 100 aurar equal 1 krona.
85. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
87. Form metals with a swage.
88. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
91. A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink.
94. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
95. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
96. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
99. The square of a body of any size of type.
100. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
101. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
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