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1. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
4. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
9. A beckoning gesture.
13. A light touch or stroke.
16. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
17. Wasting of the body during a chronic disease.
18. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
19. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
20. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
21. Cause to smell or be smelly.
23. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
25. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
27. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
29. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
30. A crime syndicate in the United States.
32. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
34. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
36. 16 ounces.
37. A person forced to flee from home or country.
39. Proboscis monkeys.
43. Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).
46. A sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease.
50. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
51. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
52. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
54. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
55. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
56. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
57. East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok.
58. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
60. Dried seaweed especially that cast ashore.
63. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
64. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
66. An industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border.
67. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
68. Gone by.
69. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
71. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
73. A quantity of no importance.
75. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
77. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
79. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
80. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
82. Tag the base runner to get him out.
83. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
85. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
87. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
89. The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.
95. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
97. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
98. The seventh and last day of the week.
99. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
100. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
102. An extravagantly enthusiastic review.
103. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
104. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
105. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
106. An open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food.
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1. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
2. A French abbot.
3. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
4. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
5. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
6. Away from the mouth or oral region.
7. A beautiful and graceful girl.
8. Goddess of fertility.
9. Lose blood from one's body.
10. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
11. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
12. The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
13. An informal term for a father.
14. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
15. An unofficial association of people or groups.
22. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
24. Natural nitrogen-containing bases found in plants.
26. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
28. A member of a nomadic people of the northern Ural mountains.
31. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
33. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
35. A small cloth bag filled with dried beans.
38. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
40. United States biochemist (born in Germany) noted for his studies of metabolic processes (1899-1986).
41. The process of forming and relating ideas.
42. Fit to be offered for sale.
44. The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet.
45. State in northeastern India.
47. A very slow movement.
48. Any of several usually small short-bodied breeds originally trained to hunt animals living underground.
49. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
53. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
59. English monk and scholar (672-735).
61. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
62. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
65. Complacently or inanely foolish.
70. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
71. Goddess of fertility.
72. First woman aviator to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic (1928).
73. An informal term for a father.
74. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
76. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
78. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
81. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
82. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
84. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
86. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
87. In operation or operational.
88. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
90. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
91. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
92. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
93. A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland.
94. The nest of a squirrel.
96. The cry made by sheep.
101. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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