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1. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
5. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. A neutral middle vowel.
13. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
16. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
17. By bad luck.
18. A deep prolonged loud noise.
19. The cry made by sheep.
20. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
21. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
23. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
25. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
26. God of war.
28. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
30. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
33. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
34. Polished and well-groomed.
36. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
39. Any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill.
43. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
44. (of fabrics) Having soft nap produced by brushing.
46. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
48. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
49. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
51. (used as a sentenced connector) Therefore or consequently.
53. Any wrongdoing for which and action for damages may be brought.
54. Not divisible by two.
56. Wild and domestic cattle.
59. A military trainee (as at a military academy).
61. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
63. A trivial lie.
64. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
65. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
66. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
68. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
70. A canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter.
72. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
75. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
76. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
77. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
80. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
82. Not only so, but.
85. Relating to or characteristic of the state or people of Alaska.
89. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
92. God of fire.
93. Someone who fights bulls.
95. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
96. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
98. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
100. (informal) Roused to anger.
101. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
102. State in northeastern India.
103. A quantity of no importance.
104. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. The time during which someone's life continues.
2. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
3. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
4. North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
5. Fallow deer.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. Covered or wrapped with a bandage.
8. United States dancer and cinema actor noted for his original and graceful tap dancing (1899-1987).
9. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
10. Rub elbows with.
11. Misery resulting from affliction.
12. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
13. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
14. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
15. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. A town in southern Minnesota.
27. A Spanish title of respect for a gentleman or nobleman.
29. An inhabitant of ancient Assyria.
31. A state in New England.
35. That is to say.
37. In football.
38. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
40. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
41. At or constituting a border or edge.
42. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food.
45. An East Indian sailor.
47. An informal conversation.
50. In bed.
52. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
55. Decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior.
57. A feeling of intense anger.
58. A genus of Paridae.
60. An Iranian language spoken in Pakistan and Iran and Afghanistan and Russia and the Persian gulf.
62. The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal).
67. Leave a camp.
69. A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.
70. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
71. Any high mountain.
73. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
74. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
78. Type genus of the Elopidae.
79. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
81. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
82. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
83. Armor plate that protects the chest.
84. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
86. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
87. Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.
88. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
90. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
91. An informal term for a father.
94. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
97. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
99. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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