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1. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
4. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
12. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
16. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
17. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
18. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
19. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
20. Late time of life.
21. The fare charged for traveling by airplane.
23. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.
24. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
26. The capital and largest city of Nepal.
28. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
29. A disreputable vagrant.
31. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
33. A blank leaf in the front of back of a book.
40. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
41. Coldness due to a cold environment.
47. The place where some action occurs.
48. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
49. (Roman mythology) God of love.
50. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
52. The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).
54. A kind of person.
57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. Large genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or small trees with large daisylike flowers.
62. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
64. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
65. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
66. United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918).
67. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
68. Informal terms for a mother.
69. Absence of the sense of smell (as by damage to olfactory nasal tissue or the olfactory nerve or by obstruction of the nasal passages).
71. Having been read.
73. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
75. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
77. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
79. Singing jazz.
82. An Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions.
86. An alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge.
90. An accidental happening.
92. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
94. Any competition.
95. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
96. The capital of Western Samoa.
97. On or toward the lee.
98. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
99. How long something has existed.
100. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
101. Occupied or in the control of.
102. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. One of the common people.
2. Not in action or at work.
3. Any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
6. A city in northern India.
7. The handle of a weapon or tool.
8. Wild and menacing.
9. A particular environment or walk of life.
10. An expression of greeting.
11. Locate and correct errors in a computer program code.
12. Big-eyed scad.
13. An Asian river between China and Russia.
14. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
15. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
22. Before noon.
25. A republic in central Europe.
27. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
30. English monk and scholar (672-735).
32. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
34. Characterized by extravagance and profusion.
35. Inventory accounting in which the oldest items (those first acquired) are assumed to be the first sold.
36. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
37. Of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture.
38. Outer membrane covering an axon.
39. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
42. A tight-fitting headdress.
43. United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971).
44. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
45. Lean end of the neck.
46. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
51. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text.
53. Half the width of an em.
55. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
56. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
58. Avatar of Vishnu.
60. A useful or valuable quality.
61. Semi-parasitic herb with purple or white or pink flowers.
63. A substance derived from amygdalin.
70. Enter uninvited.
72. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
74. The largest city of Cameroon.
75. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
76. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
78. A radioactive transuranic element.
80. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
81. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
83. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
84. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
85. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
87. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
88. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
89. A three-tone Chadic language.
91. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
93. Any federal law-enforcement officer.
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