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1. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
4. A woman of refinement.
9. Type genus of the Musaceae.
13. The residue that remains when something is burned.
16. A rapid bustling commotion.
17. Lower in esteem.
18. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. Wading bird of South and Central America.
22. Work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches).
24. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
25. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
26. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
28. Make less active or intense.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
32. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
34. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
36. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
38. Not final or absolute.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
46. Not out.
47. Lacking excess flesh.
49. A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text.
53. A book of the New Testament.
55. In or of the present month.
56. Being or having an unknown or unnamed source.
57. Small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and North Asia.
58. An enclosed space.
60. Concerned chiefly or only with yourself.
61. Towards the side away from the wind.
62. A city in northwestern Syria.
65. Small genus of North American herbs having mostly basal leaves and slender racemes of delicate white flowers.
68. An appreciable consequence (especially a lessening).
69. Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches.
71. (archaic) Of persons.
72. A republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Sea.
75. Used especially in treating bruises.
77. A place of inviolable privacy.
79. A military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position.
83. Causing a dull and steady pain.
86. The act of fixing firmly in place.
88. People having the same social or economic status.
91. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
92. Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910).
93. Being one more than two.
94. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
98. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
99. A unit of pain intensity.
100. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
101. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
102. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
3. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
4. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
7. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
8. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
9. A strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp.
10. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
11. Estrangement from god.
12. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Singing jazz.
15. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
21. Relying on another for support.
23. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
27. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
29. East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks.
31. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
33. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
35. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
37. The act of dividing by cutting or splitting.
39. English poet (1887-1964).
40. In place of, or as an alternative to.
43. Same in identity.
44. United States minimalist painter (born in 1936).
48. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
50. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
51. German bacteriologist who described a disease now known as Reiter's syndrome and who identified the spirochete that causes syphilis in humans (1881-1969).
52. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
54. A large stringed instrument.
59. A person forced to flee from home or country.
63. Drooping of the upper eyelid caused by muscle paralysis and weakness.
64. Owed as a debt.
66. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position.
67. A card game for 2 players.
70. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
73. Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930).
74. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
76. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
78. An edict of the Russian tsar.
80. Or or relating to or caused by tides.
81. Chief god of the Rig-Veda.
82. A republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971.
84. (Greek mythology) The Muse of history.
85. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
87. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
89. Considerate and solicitous care.
90. Term of address for a man.
95. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
96. Before noon.
97. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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