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1. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
4. Baby bed with high sides.
8. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
12. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
16. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
17. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
18. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
20. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
22. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
24. Short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa.
25. Understood in a certain way.
27. Someone whose business is advertising.
29. European freshwater fish resembling the roach.
30. A light touch or stroke.
33. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
35. Of or relating to the ancient Greek city of Argos or its people.
38. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
40. Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War.
43. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
45. A group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast.
46. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
49. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
50. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
55. A bachelor's degree in religion.
56. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
60. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
62. Dutch physicist honored for his research on the influence of magnetism on radiation which showed that light is radiated by the motion of charged particles in an atom (1865-1943).
64. British informal term.
65. Stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen.
66. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
68. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
71. A doctor's degree in music.
72. The craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suture.
75. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
76. Occurring widely (as to many people).
77. Emperor of Rome who introduced a degree of freedom after the repressive reign of Domitian.
78. A crime syndicate in the United States.
79. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
82. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
85. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
89. Mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults.
91. Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other.
92. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
94. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
95. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
96. (trademark) An acrylic fiber or the lightweight crease-resistant fabric made with Orlon yarns.
98. Advanced in years.
100. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
101. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
102. United States composer (born in Austria) who collaborated with Lerner on several musicals (1901-1987).
103. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
104. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
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1. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
2. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
3. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
4. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
5. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
6. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
7. The cry made by sheep.
8. Any plant that crowds out cultivated plants.
9. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
10. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.
11. Complacently or inanely foolish.
12. The wife or widow of a czar.
13. Cause to come to know personally.
14. Praise, glorify, or honor.
15. In bed.
21. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
23. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
26. Connected with or belonging to or used in a navy.
28. Large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit.
31. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. Reported or spread by word of mouth.
36. Noteworthy scarcity.
37. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
39. A cephalosporin antibiotic (trade name Ultracef).
41. Type genus of the Odobenidae.
42. Unnecessary and unwarranted.
44. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
51. A decree that prohibits something.
52. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
53. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
54. Worker in a railway yard.
57. A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane).
58. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
59. A motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities.
61. Leafless East Indian vine.
63. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
67. Having characteristics that attract love or affection.
68. The cry made by sheep.
69. (statistics) Of a distribution.
70. Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements.
73. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
74. Not wide.
80. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
81. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
83. Having finished or arrived at completion.
84. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
86. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
87. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
88. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
90. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
93. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
97. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
99. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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