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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
9. Elegant and stylish.
13. Any of various units of capacity.
16. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
17. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
18. Cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (Southern).
19. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
20. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
21. A sloping mass of rocks at the base of a cliff.
22. Affected manners intended to impress others.
23. A decree that prohibits something.
24. An associate degree in nursing.
27. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
29. A member of a Kannada-speaking group of people living chiefly in Kanara in southern India.
30. Of or concerning Qatar.
32. A beautiful and graceful girl.
33. Of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula.
37. An equal exchange.
40. (Greek mythology) The Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology.
45. Gone by.
46. An account describing incidents or events.
47. Lower in esteem.
48. A name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped.
49. Escape, either physically or mentally.
53. Pertaining to animals or animal life or action.
54. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
55. Long and thin and often limp.
56. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
57. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
58. Genus of herbs and subshrubs having showy flowers.
60. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
64. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
65. The airforce of Great Britain.
68. A public promotion of some product or service.
69. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
70. An expression of greeting.
74. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
77. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
80. Indigo bush.
82. Liquid excretory product.
84. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
88. A ribbon used as a decoration.
90. Decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior.
91. Greek mythology.
92. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
93. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
95. Expel, as of gases and odors.
97. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
98. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
99. An episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll.
100. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
101. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
3. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. Characteristic of maturity.
5. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
6. Failure of some tissue or organ to develop.
7. Flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food v 1.
8. In addition.
9. An accountant certified by the state.
10. Lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects v 1.
11. An encroachment or intrusion.
12. Relating to abdominal delivery.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. A narrow way or road.
25. Used especially of front teeth having artificial crowns.
26. A state in northwestern North America.
28. A member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia.
31. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
34. (electronics) Designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel.
35. An anagram that means the opposite of the original word or phrase.
36. Small genus of tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having pods like those of the acacia.
38. A language of Australian aborigines.
39. A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university).
41. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
42. Very dark black.
43. A form of Japanese poetry.
44. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
50. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
51. Having a gradual increase in width.
52. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
59. South American cavy.
61. Common genus of marine bubble shells of the Pacific coast of North America.
62. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
63. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
66. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
67. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
71. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
72. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
73. Being one more than one hundred.
75. American dramatist (1928- ).
76. A member of a nomadic people of the northern Ural mountains.
78. Full of germs or pathological microorganisms.
79. Coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position.
81. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
83. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
85. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
86. Suggestive of the supernatural.
87. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
89. An informal term for a father.
94. A Mid-Atlantic state.
96. A state in midwestern United States.
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