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1. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
4. Implement consisting of a length of wood.
9. Dutch postimpressionist painter noted for his use of color (1853-1890).
13. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
16. Botfly larva.
17. American poet (born in England) (1907-1973).
18. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
19. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. A colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs.
22. An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term).
23. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
24. Garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering.
25. British soldier.
27. A state in New England.
30. A canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun.
34. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
38. Being one more than fifty.
39. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
42. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
43. Easily broken or damaged or destroyed.
45. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
46. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
47. Of or relating to the kidneys.
48. Made from baking chocolate or cocoa powder and milk and sugar.
51. A very attractive or seductive looking woman.
52. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
55. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
56. Leafless East Indian vine.
58. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
59. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
62. An act punishable by law.
64. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and to have pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441).
66. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
67. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
68. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
69. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
71. A blind god.
74. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
78. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
81. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
86. Used in combination.
87. Of or relating to or functioning as a phrase.
89. Annual or perennial herbs.
91. A master's degree in business.
92. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
93. A diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization.
95. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
96. A decree that prohibits something.
97. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
98. Appeal or request earnestly.
99. Advanced in years.
100. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
101. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
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1. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
2. A globular water bottle used in Asia.
3. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
4. A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral.
5. A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara.
6. In an idle manner.
7. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
8. Edge tool used as a cutting instrument.
9. The part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus.
10. (sports) With hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level.
11. Small genus of hairy herbs with yellow flowers.
12. The appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it.
13. In addition.
14. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
15. Singing jazz.
21. Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill.
26. Involving or constituting a cause.
28. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
29. Epithet of Siva.
31. Wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles.
32. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
33. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
35. Tree of the Amazon valley yielding a light brittle timber locally regarded as resistant to insect attack.
36. Rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey.
37. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
40. A period of 10 years.
41. A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British).
44. A deficiency of red blood cells.
49. Any of several East Indian birds.
50. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
53. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
57. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
60. 16 ounces.
61. (Old Testament) The fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
63. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
65. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
70. North American bluebirds.
72. A doctor's degree in optometry.
73. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
75. A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River.
76. Having a specified kind of border or edge.
77. Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
82. At a specific prior time.
83. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
84. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
85. United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967).
88. Standard temperature and pressure.
90. (informal) Roused to anger.
94. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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