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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
5. Abnormally high acidity (excess hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues.
13. Fallow deer.
17. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
18. Including everything visible in one view.
19. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
20. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
21. The principal dish of a meal.
22. (Greek mythology) Greek goddess of fertility who later became associated with Persephone as goddess of the underworld and protector of witches.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. Ancient Greek or Roman galley or warship having three tiers of oars on each side.
25. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
26. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
28. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
30. Any high mountain.
32. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
35. Especially fine or decorative clothing.
38. Black tropical American cuckoo.
41. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
44. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. Before noon.
48. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
49. A castrated tomcat.
51. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
53. Give over.
54. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
55. Imprisonment (especially for a long time).
57. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
59. A Hindu prince or king in India.
61. Occurring at the beginning.
62. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
63. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
64. The sixth month of the civil year.
65. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
67. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
69. A Russian river.
71. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
72. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
74. How long something has existed.
75. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
78. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
80. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
81. Herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.
89. A book of the New Testament.
90. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
91. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
92. Jordan's port.
94. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
98. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
99. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
100. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
101. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
102. The nest of a squirrel.
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1. A right or legal share of something.
2. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.
3. Jordan's port.
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Bahama Islands or their inhabitants.
5. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
6. Hard fiber used in making coarse twine.
7. Invulnerable to fear or intimidation.
8. (architecture) Oldest and simplest of the three orders of classical Greek architecture.
9. Direct or control.
10. An alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon.
11. Being one more than one.
12. An internal representation of the world.
13. Australasian kingfishers.
14. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
15. (used colloquially) Having the relationship of friends or pals.
16. A particular environment or walk of life.
27. Broadly or extravagantly humorous.
29. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
31. Lacking motor coordination.
33. Spherical in shape.
34. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
36. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
37. A state in southeastern United States.
39. A city in eastern China on the Yangtze River.
40. A situation in which no progress can be made.
42. God of fire.
45. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
46. A weekday on which no feast is celebrated.
50. Be in contradiction with.
52. A gentle affectionate stroking (or something resembling it).
56. The Fate who cuts the thread of life.
58. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
60. An elaborate song for solo voice.
66. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
67. (architecture) Oldest and simplest of the three orders of classical Greek architecture.
68. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
70. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
73. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
76. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
77. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
79. The cry made by sheep.
82. Type genus of the Majidae.
83. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
84. Noisy talk.
85. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
86. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
87. A French abbot.
88. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
93. A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus).
94. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
95. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
96. A state in midwestern United States.
97. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
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