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1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. A garment of cloth or leather or plastic that is tied about the waist and worn to protect your clothing.
9. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
13. A male human offspring.
16. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
17. An island republic on Nauru Island.
18. Affected manners intended to impress others.
19. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
20. (informal) Of the highest quality.
21. Not recorded on film or tape.
22. Wild ginger.
24. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
26. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
27. The capital and largest city of Hawaii.
28. Type genus of the Anatidae.
30. A characteristic state or mode of living.
32. A wooden hand tool with a pointed end.
33. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
35. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
37. One thousand grams.
38. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
40. Closed with a lace.
44. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
48. Connected with or belonging to or used in a navy.
50. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
52. Measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation.
53. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
54. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
55. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
57. Any of several short-billed Old World rails.
59. Old World genus of annual to perennial herbs.
61. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
63. The content of cognition.
64. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
65. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
68. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
69. An unofficial association of people or groups.
70. An extreme state of adversity.
72. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
74. Showily imitative of art or artists.
75. (Greek mythology) The Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology.
79. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
82. Open to change.
84. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
88. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
91. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
93. A light touch or stroke.
94. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
95. Toward the inside of the cheek.
96. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
97. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
98. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
99. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
100. Chief port of Yemen.
101. Type genus of the Muridae.
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1. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
4. (Babylonian) The sky god.
5. (usually in the plural) A garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately.
6. Type genus of the Rutaceae.
7. An authoritative person who divines the future.
8. The social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed.
9. The 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
10. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
11. The father of your father or mother.
12. Absolve or pardon.
13. Protective garment worn by surgeons during operations.
14. A small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant.
15. A city in south central Belgium situated on a promontory between the Meuse River and the Sambre River.
23. Type and sole genus of the family Albulidae.
25. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
29. An associate degree in nursing.
31. A geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry.
34. Youthful appearance in an old person.
36. Serving cart for serving tea or light refreshments.
39. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
41. A genus of Paridae.
42. The capital of Uzbekistan.
43. Prior to a specified or implied time.
45. French soldier said to be fearless and chivalrous (1473-1524).
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. Included seven times in every 19 years.
51. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
56. The cry made by sheep.
58. Humorously vulgar.
60. Tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail.
62. Produced by a manufacturing process.
66. A studio especially for an artist or designer.
67. An order of Eutheria.
68. The social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed.
71. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
73. A unit of pressure.
76. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
77. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
78. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
80. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
81. An elaborate song for solo voice.
83. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
85. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
86. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
87. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
89. A proportion multiplied by 100.
90. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
92. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
93. Being nine more than forty.
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