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1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. A motorbike that can be pedaled or driven by a low-powered gasoline engine.
9. Perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere.
13. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
18. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
19. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. The coming again into activity and prominence.
23. Used especially in treating bruises.
25. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying the primeval sea.
27. A card game for 2 players.
29. A city in north-central India.
30. The square of a body of any size of type.
31. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
32. A mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing.
34. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
36. Not alert or attentive.
38. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
42. (of panes of glass) Fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead.
46. (Italian cookery) Squid prepared as food.
48. Hard plate or element of the exoskeleton of some arthropods.
50. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
51. A famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813).
53. A human limb.
54. (Old Testament) King of Judah who abolished idolatry (715-687 BC).
56. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
58. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
59. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
60. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
61. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
62. Leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice.
64. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
66. Make uniform.
67. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
69. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
71. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
72. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
73. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
76. Set down according to a plan.
79. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
81. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
83. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
86. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
89. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
92. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
94. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
95. A feeling of intense anger.
96. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
98. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
99. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
100. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
101. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
102. A transmission line for high-frequency signals.
103. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
2. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
3. A fraudulent business scheme.
4. Shrub bearing round-fruited kumquats.
5. Be obliged to pay or repay.
6. Covered with a firm surface.
7. Any plant of the genus Erica.
8. Remove the value from.
9. Containing or filled with salt.
10. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
11. 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.
12. A victim who is murdered.
13. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
14. A tortilla chip topped with cheese and chili-pepper and broiled.
15. Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway.
22. A particular environment or walk of life.
24. A sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators.
26. A colorless odorless gas used as a fuel.
28. The fatty flesh of eel.
33. A loose cloak with a hood.
35. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
37. Of or relating to Austria or its people or culture.
39. Small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae.
40. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
41. Evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania.
43. Become wider.
44. Continuing forever or indefinitely.
45. Reduce the level of land, as by erosion.
47. The person who Jesus raised from the dead after four days in the tomb.
49. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
52. Shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed.
55. Serving as an essential component.
57. A thin cylindrical pointed writing implement.
63. Enchanter's nightshade.
64. Shrub bearing round-fruited kumquats.
65. Proceeding in small stages.
68. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
70. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
74. At full speed.
75. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
77. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
78. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
80. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
82. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
84. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
85. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
87. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
88. God of love and erotic desire.
90. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
91. A master's degree in fine arts.
93. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
97. Being one more than one hundred.
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