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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. A light-weight hat worn in tropical countries for protection from the sun.
9. An informal term for a father.
13. Extremely pleasing.
16. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
17. Type genus of the Anatidae.
18. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
19. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
20. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
21. French painter and exponent of Fauvism (1880-1954).
23. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
25. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
27. The mother of your father or mother.
29. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
30. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
31. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
33. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
36. A woman religious.
37. Extent downward or backward or inward.
41. An associate degree in nursing.
45. Something that remunerates.
46. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
48. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
49. Thrown together in a pile.
50. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
51. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
52. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
56. (Irish) The sea personified.
57. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
59. Lacking general education or knowledge.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
64. A woman of refinement.
65. A primeval personification of air and breath.
66. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
69. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
71. Being three more than fifty.
72. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
74. Israeli general and statesman (1915-1981).
76. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
78. A volcanic island (part of Campania) in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the north end of the Bay of Naples.
80. A genus of Lamnidae.
83. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
86. A weekday on which no feast is celebrated.
90. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
93. Void of thought or knowledge.
95. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
96. (informal) Of the highest quality.
97. Lower in esteem.
99. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
100. Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of.
101. An informal term for a father.
102. The production of young from an egg.
103. Material used to daub walls.
104. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
3. Old French breed of large strong usually black dogs having a long tail and long wavy and slightly stiff coat.
4. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
5. A slight amount or degree of difference.
6. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
7. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
8. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
9. A condition in which white scales of dead skin are shed by the scalp.
10. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
11. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
14. The sixth month of the civil year.
15. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
22. Complacently or inanely foolish.
24. A rosid dicot genus that includes moon carrots.
26. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
28. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
32. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
34. A detested person.
35. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
38. Italian architect (1508-1580).
39. A wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding.
40. Blood disorder in which there is excess fluid volume compared with the cell volume of the blood.
42. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
43. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
44. A glancing rebound.
47. The bottom of a sea or ocean.
53. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
54. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
55. A heavy precious metallic element.
58. A city in eastern China on the Yangtze River.
60. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
61. Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves.
67. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
68. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
70. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
73. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
74. A public promotion of some product or service.
75. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
77. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
79. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
81. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
82. (archaic) A fitting reward.
84. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
85. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
87. A Hindu prince or king in India.
88. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
89. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
91. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
92. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
94. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
98. A white trivalent metallic element.
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