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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. A boy or man.
8. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
12. A doctor's degree in music.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. American novelist (1909-1955).
19. Not widely known.
20. Wish harm upon.
22. Thorn apple.
24. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
25. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
26. A language of Australian aborigines.
29. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
30. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
31. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
33. 1/10 gram.
35. Jordan's port.
36. A republic in central Africa.
40. Rapid and indistinct speech.
42. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
45. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
46. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
49. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
50. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
51. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
52. Reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain.
56. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
58. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
59. An island in the Persian Gulf.
61. The basic unit of money in Saudi Arabia.
63. An ancient Greek city famous for military prowess.
65. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
66. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
67. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
68. A pale or subdued color.
70. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
71. Hardy evergreen dioecious shrubs and small trees from Japan.
73. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
75. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
77. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
79. Membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi.
80. A group of North African languages related to Semitic.
85. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
86. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
89. A bee that is a a member of the genus Andrena.
90. Small, human in form, playful, having magical powers.
92. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
93. Your general store of remembered information.
94. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
96. A genus of Strigidae.
97. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
98. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
99. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
100. Wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite.
101. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. In bed.
3. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
4. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
5. A small railroad car propelled by hand or by a small motor.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
8. A sailboat with a single mast set far forward.
9. Largest known toad species.
10. Common black European thrush.
11. Seed of a pea plant.
12. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
13. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
14. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
15. Joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces.
21. Capable of being added or added to.
23. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
27. Noisy talk.
28. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
32. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
34. French writer considered by some to be a founder of the detective novel (1832-1873).
37. Without offspring.
38. A family of birds of the suborder Oscines.
39. Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.
41. Butter creamed with white wine and shallots and parsley.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
47. A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances.
48. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.
53. Perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers.
54. Tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes.
55. Having tracks.
57. Loose or flaccid body fat.
60. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
62. A bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt.
64. Anything shaped like a falling drop (as a pendant gem on an earring).
69. A city in central Illinois.
72. (of spatial position) In or brought into line with or into proper relative position.
74. Normal or sound powers of mind.
75. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
76. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
78. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
81. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
82. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
83. A three-tone Chadic language.
84. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
85. A small vessel for travel on water.
87. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
88. Toward the mouth or oral region.
91. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
95. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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