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1. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
5. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
9. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
13. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
16. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
17. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
18. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
19. Water frozen in the solid state.
20. The capital of Western Samoa.
21. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
22. Slightly open.
23. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
24. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
25. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
27. Ancient Persian god of light and truth.
28. To some (great or small) extent.
30. Marked by skill in deception.
31. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
33. South African term for `boss'.
38. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
42. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
45. Seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America.
50. Very close and convivial.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. A short synopsis.
53. Loss of the ability to move a body part.
54. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
57. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
58. A connecting point at which several lines come together.
59. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
60. The quantity contained in a keg.
62. An inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others.
64. English essayist (1775-1834).
67. Having the taste of wine.
68. Squash bugs.
71. Pertaining to or near the sun.
72. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
73. A light touch or stroke.
75. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
77. Not in action or at work.
79. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
81. Slices of bread that have been toasted.
84. Narrow and long and pointed.
87. A solemn supplication ceremony prescribed by the church.
91. A city in central Italy on the Arno River.
93. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
94. Report or maintain.
95. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
97. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
98. An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving.
99. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
100. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
101. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
102. (Babylonian) The sky god.
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1. A large number or amount.
2. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
3. Any of several imperial dynasties of China ruling from 220 to 265 and from 386 to 556.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
6. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
7. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
8. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
9. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
10. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
11. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
12. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
13. Dignified manner or conduct.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
15. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
29. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
32. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
34. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
35. Covered with or as if with a glossy and usually brightly colored coating.
36. The property of being rigid and resistant to pressure.
37. Belonging to some prior time.
39. A coil of wire around an iron core.
40. A health facility where patients receive treatment.
41. At or in or to any place.
43. Extremely evil or cruel.
44. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
46. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
47. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
48. Make anew.
49. Any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language.
55. A flexible container with a single opening.
56. Not only so, but.
63. A Japanese supervisor.
65. A substance derived from amygdalin.
66. A bachelor's degree in literature.
69. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
74. French novelist.
75. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
76. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
77. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
78. A sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived.
79. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
80. English monk and scholar (672-735).
81. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
82. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
83. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
85. Perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning.
86. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
88. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
89. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
90. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
92. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
96. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
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