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1. An honorary degree in science.
4. Of or relating to or resembling the eye.
9. Greenish-yellow pear.
13. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations.
18. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
19. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
20. Perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area.
22. (mathematics) Directly proportional.
23. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
24. Type genus of the Amiidae.
25. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
27. An organized body of related information.
29. Genus of American of east Asian perennial herbs with yellow to orange or red flower rays.
32. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
33. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
36. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
39. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position.
45. Tropical Asian starlings.
47. The sixth month of the civil year.
49. A state of readiness to respond.
51. At or constituting a border or edge.
52. A strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines).
53. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
54. Harmed or injured or spoiled.
55. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
57. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
58. A small drink of liquor.
60. Large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.
63. A city in northern India.
65. Without the natural or usual covering.
68. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
69. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
71. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
72. Prevent the growth of horns.
74. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
77. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
80. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
81. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
84. A city in southern Japan on Kyushu.
89. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
90. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
92. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
93. Belonging to some prior time.
95. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
97. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
98. Advanced in years.
99. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
100. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
101. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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1. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
2. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
3. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
4. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
5. The basic unit of money in Macao.
6. A line or route along which something travels or moves.
7. Being nine more than ninety.
8. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
9. An unofficial association of people or groups.
10. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
11. Singing jazz.
12. Type genus of the Carangidae.
13. Some point in the air.
14. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
15. Treated with contempt.
21. Writing board used on the lap as a table or desk.
26. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
28. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
30. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
31. Constructed with or in the form of an arch or arches.
34. English physicist who studied the density of gases and discovered argon.
35. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
37. One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.
38. Having gears not engaged or disconnected.
40. Assembly possessing high legislative powers.
41. Used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat.
42. Overeat or eat immodestly.
43. Someone who provides food and service (as for a party).
44. Any of several East Indian birds.
46. Having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds.
48. Informal terms for money.
50. A branch of the Tai languages.
56. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
59. A customary way of operation or behavior.
61. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
62. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
64. Regional and archaic.
65. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
66. Fiddler crabs.
67. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
70. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
73. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
75. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
76. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
78. Squash bugs.
79. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
80. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
82. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
83. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
85. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
86. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
87. God of love and erotic desire.
88. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
91. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
94. An informal term for a father.
96. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
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