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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. An autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century.
9. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
13. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
16. A police officer who investigates crimes.
17. (Greek mythology) The Muse of lyric and love poetry.
18. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
19. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
20. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
21. Any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles.
22. Suggestive of the supernatural.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. (of hair) Not combed.
29. A member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia.
31. Unknown god.
32. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
33. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
36. Remove the pins from.
39. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
43. A particular environment or walk of life.
44. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
46. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
47. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
48. Decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor.
51. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
53. Enter drop by drop, as of medication into an eye.
56. Cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill).
58. A town in central Belgium.
59. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
60. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
61. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
62. (Greek mythology) The ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades.
63. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
64. Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual.
65. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
66. A specific instance of feeling hopeful.
67. The 9th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
70. Before noon.
71. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
77. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
80. Made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization.
82. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
85. Fairy shrimp.
87. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.
90. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
91. Resembling a fork.
93. English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829).
94. A human limb.
96. A master's degree in religion.
98. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
99. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
100. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
101. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
102. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
2. A Russian river.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
5. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..
6. General who commanded the Carthaginian army in the Second Punic War.
7. Of or relating to near the ear.
8. The form of ratbite fever occurring in the Far East.
9. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
10. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
11. Goddess of fate.
12. One or some or every or all without specification.
13. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
14. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
15. God of death.
25. Similar or related in quality or character.
27. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
28. A severe or trying experience.
30. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
34. Shod or cased with iron.
35. A commercial browser.
37. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
38. A state in midwestern United States.
40. A town in central Belgium.
41. (medieval legends) The nephew of King Mark of Cornwall who fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other.
42. A detested person.
45. Any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails.
49. Buildings for carrying on industrial labor.
50. Highly concentrated or intense.
52. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
54. Someone who fights bulls.
55. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
57. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
65. Straighten up or out.
68. (of exocrine glands) Producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell.
69. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
72. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
73. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
74. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
75. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
76. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
77. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
78. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
79. (nautical) Of an anchor.
81. A major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate.
82. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
83. An agenda of things to do.
84. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
86. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
88. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
89. The eighth month of the civil year.
92. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
95. Informal terms for a mother.
97. A state in New England.
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