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1. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
4. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust.
8. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
12. A city in the European part of Russia.
16. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
17. Using speech rather than writing.
18. A small island.
19. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. Become or cause to become obstructed.
22. A person who travels through the water by swimming.
24. A viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder.
26. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
28. Any of several short-billed Old World rails.
29. Perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers.
32. A sport adapted from jujitsu (using principles of not resisting) and similar to wrestling.
33. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
34. Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).
38. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
41. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
43. A battle in the Thirty Years' War (1643).
44. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
48. A Scottish word.
49. Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence.
51. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
54. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
55. (physical chemistry) A distinct state of matter in a system.
58. A soft silvery metallic element.
60. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
61. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
62. Cause to undergo mutation.
63. A set of clothing (with accessories).
65. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
67. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
68. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
70. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
71. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
72. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
74. A small cake leavened with yeast.
77. Somewhat ill or prone to illness.
80. American novelist (1909-1955).
82. 16th President of the United States.
85. Supplied with (especially a dower or dowry).
89. Fly a plane.
91. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
93. Extremely robust.
94. An Old World reptile family of Sauria.
96. Very dark black.
97. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram.
98. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
99. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
100. Conforming to truth.
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1. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
2. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
3. An orderly pile.
4. Italian theologian who argued against trinitarianism (1539-1604).
5. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
6. One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada.
7. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
8. Lost temporarily.
9. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
12. An Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374).
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
14. A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant.
15. Being nothing more than specified.
23. (informal) Of the highest quality.
25. Erect densely branched shrubby perennials of Old World tropics.
27. A decree that prohibits something.
30. Hybrid produced by crossing Prunus domestica and Prunus armeniaca.
31. A game played with playing cards.
35. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
36. A state of social isolation.
37. (of persons) Seized and detained unlawfully, often for ransom.
39. Shape anew or differently.
40. Turn on or around an axis or a center.
42. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
45. A state in New England.
46. South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950).
47. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
50. A police officer who investigates crimes.
52. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
53. A condition promoting sanitary practices.
56. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
57. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
59. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
64. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
66. A movable barrier used in motor racing.
67. Italian theologian who argued against trinitarianism (1539-1604).
69. A Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea.
73. A blemish made by dirt.
75. Wish harm upon.
76. Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).
78. (of eggs) No longer edible.
79. A negatively charged atom.
81. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. A battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV of France defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne.
84. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
86. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
87. A primeval personification of air and breath.
88. Type genus of the Ranidae.
90. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
92. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
95. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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