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1. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
4. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
9. God of death.
13. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
18. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
19. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
20. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
22. Wear away.
23. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
24. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
25. An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.
27. A major industrial center in northeastern China on the Grand Canal near the Yellow Sea.
29. A severe or trying experience.
31. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
33. (informal) Someone whose style is out of fashion.
35. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
39. The eleventh month of the civil year.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. A form of Japanese poetry.
46. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
47. (of a male animal) Having the testicles removed.
49. Showy perennial herb with white flowers.
51. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
52. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
54. An island northwest of Wales.
55. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
58. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
60. Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again.
61. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
63. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
65. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
67. A car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
71. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
72. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
73. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
74. Antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA.
76. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
79. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
82. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
83. Agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central and South America and West Indies.
85. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
88. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
92. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
93. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
96. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
98. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
99. How long something has existed.
100. Not clearly understood or expressed.
101. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
102. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
103. Nonresinous wood of a fir tree.
104. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
105. A large quantity of written matter.
106. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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1. A field of cultivated and mowed grass.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. Reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received.
4. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
5. Make less active or intense.
6. Cut the head of.
7. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
8. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
9. The Fate who cuts the thread of life.
10. A means of serving.
11. From sins, as in religious dogma.
12. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
13. A doctor's degree in music.
14. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
15. The act of scanning.
21. In a foreign country.
26. The floating wreckage of a ship.
28. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
30. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
32. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
34. Any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads.
36. A moss in which the main axis is terminated by the archegonium (and hence the capsule).
37. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
38. City in central Iran.
41. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
44. A festival featuring African-American culture.
45. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
48. Closed with a lace.
50. United States psychologist who studied the intelligence of primates (1876-1956).
53. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
56. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
57. Unknown god.
59. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
62. Not participating in a chemical reaction.
64. Little known Kamarupan languages.
66. Irish writer and wit (1854-1900).
68. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
69. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
75. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
77. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
78. A decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game).
80. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
81. Excessively fat.
82. Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view.
84. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
86. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
87. An elaborate song for solo voice.
89. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
90. An informal term for a father.
91. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
94. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
95. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
97. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
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