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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
8. An investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate asssets.
12. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
16. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
17. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
18. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
19. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
20. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
21. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
22. A sudden impact.
23. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
24. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
26. A drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements.
29. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
30. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
32. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. One or some or every or all without specification.
35. A bachelor's degree in science.
37. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
38. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
41. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
47. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
50. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
51. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
52. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
55. Rum cut with water.
57. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
58. Intensely stirred up especially by anger or resentment.
60. The capital of Switzerland.
61. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
63. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
65. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
66. Of or belonging to or suitable for a duke.
68. An active and efficient cause.
69. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
71. Taken before a meal as an appetizer.
74. Any of several imperial dynasties of China ruling from 220 to 265 and from 386 to 556.
75. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
76. A public promotion of some product or service.
78. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
79. A branch of the Tai languages.
82. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
84. Of or relating to or attended by putrefaction.
86. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
88. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
92. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
95. Port city on Atlantic coast.
97. A building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation.
100. Type genus of the Nepidae.
101. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
102. Genus of gilled agarics of Europe and North America having brown spores and an annulus.
104. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
105. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
106. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
107. A republic in western South America.
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1. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
2. A quantity of no importance.
3. Jordan's port.
4. The compass point that is one point north of due west.
5. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
6. English monk and scholar (672-735).
7. A town in northern Minnesota.
8. Re-equip a factory or plant.
9. Submerged freshwater perennials.
10. A small island.
11. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
14. A rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy.
15. A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments).
25. Prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules.
27. A state in the eastern United States.
28. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A hand tool for spreading something.
39. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
40. A motley assortment of things.
42. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
43. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
44. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
45. A person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink).
46. Genus of tropical African herbs or subshrubs with usually blue flowers.
48. Any of the machine-readable lexical databases modeled after the Princeton WordNet.
49. Related on the father's side.
53. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
54. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
56. Re-establish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new.
59. (often plural) A command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed.
62. A master's degree in fine arts.
64. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
67. A Loloish language.
70. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
71. The compass point that is one point north of due west.
72. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
73. A man who is a stupid fool.
77. Two items of the same kind.
80. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
81. Of people.
83. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
85. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
86. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
87. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
88. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
89. (Roman mythology) God of love.
90. Rotary motion of an object around its own axis.
91. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
93. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
94. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
96. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
98. A man who serves as a sailor.
99. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
103. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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