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1. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
5. A rate (usually rapid) at which something happens.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
17. Avatar of Vishnu.
18. Peace of mind.
19. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
20. Humorously sarcastic or mocking.
21. French mathematician who founded number theory.
22. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
23. (Scottish) A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains).
24. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
30. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping.
32. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
39. A doctor's degree in optometry.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
45. Any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits.
46. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
49. Capable of wounding.
51. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
52. Squash bugs.
55. A public promotion of some product or service.
58. Type genus of the Majidae.
62. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
63. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
64. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
66. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
67. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.
70. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
72. Small room on a ship or boat where people sleep.
75. A small cake leavened with yeast.
78. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
81. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
84. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
85. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
88. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
89. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
91. Positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger.
93. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
94. The quantity contained in a keg.
95. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
97. Obtained from various tropical plants.
98. Being one more than nine.
99. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
100. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
101. Chief port of Yemen.
102. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
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1. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
2. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
3. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
4. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
5. The face or front of a building.
6. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
8. A general direction in which something tends to move.
9. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
10. Horned sheep of Devon.
11. A city of central China.
12. The seventh and last day of the week.
13. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
15. Having the slant of a bevel.
16. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
25. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
26. A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells.
29. In bed.
31. Large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. Advanced in years.
36. Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses.
37. Give the right to.
38. Kauri pine.
41. The cry made by sheep.
43. A French abbot.
44. American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit.
47. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
50. Having the head uncovered.
53. A region of Malaysia on northwestern Borneo.
54. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
56. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
57. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
59. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
60. An elderly person.
61. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
65. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
69. A whetstone made of fine gritstone.
71. Producing no result or effect.
73. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
74. A Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed people of northern Siberia.
75. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
76. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
77. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
79. Tree (as opposed to shrub).
80. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
81. An associate degree in nursing.
82. A native American tent.
83. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
86. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
87. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
90. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
91. A Mid-Atlantic state.
92. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
96. Informal terms for a mother.
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