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1. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
5. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
9. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
13. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
17. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
18. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
19. A light touch or stroke.
20. Being eight more than seventy.
21. An outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles.
23. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
24. A French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750).
25. The horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low.
26. A very large person.
28. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
30. God of wisdom or prophesy.
32. (of sounds) Repeating by reflection.
35. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
36. Assign a new order to.
40. Having winglike extensions.
42. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
43. An intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls.
44. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
48. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
49. The tenth month of the Hindu calendar.
51. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
53. Nocturnal wildcat of Central and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat.
55. A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language.
57. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
60. The second larges of the four main islands of Japan.
61. Duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females.
62. Having an oblique or slanted direction.
63. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
65. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
67. (Phoenician and Philistine) God of agriculture and the earth.
68. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
69. The act of detecting something.
72. (informal) Elegant and fashionable.
74. An unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang.
76. The capital of Western Samoa.
78. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
79. A gesture involving the shoulders.
81. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.
85. Indigo bush.
88. An empire in South Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.
90. Fierce wild dog of the forests of central and southeast Asia that hunts in packs.
91. The first light of day.
92. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
93. Greek mythology.
95. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
98. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
99. Remaining after all deductions.
100. Of or relating to or involving an area.
101. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
102. A strong emotion.
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1. A bachelor's degree in library science.
2. The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum.
3. Being nine more than sixty.
4. A shelter for birds (especially pigeons).
5. An island in the southern Mariana Islands that is the administrative center of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
6. A sport in which participants must travel on skis.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. Attracting or delighting.
9. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
10. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
11. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
12. Fictitious land described in the novel Erewhon by Samuel Butler.
13. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
14. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
15. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
27. The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
29. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
31. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
33. Roman Emperor after his nephew Caligula was murdered.
34. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
37. A person who fights duels.
38. Of or relating to epizoa.
39. Using language effectively to please or persuade.
41. A town in central Belgium.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
47. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
50. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
52. (with `in') Guardianship over.
54. A parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Cefobid) used for severe infections.
56. (Greek mythology) A tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta.
58. A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.
59. A major god.
64. Not having been read.
66. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
70. Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds.
71. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
73. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
75. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
77. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
80. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
82. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
83. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
84. The food served and eaten at one time.
86. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
87. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
89. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
94. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
96. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
97. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
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