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1. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
4. A French abbot.
8. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
12. The quantity a cask will hold.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
18. Being nothing more than specified.
19. The emotion of hate.
20. The first month of the year.
21. An inhabitant of Lappland.
22. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
23. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
24. Pleasantly occupied.
26. (Scotland) A landowner.
29. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
32. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. God of love and erotic desire.
37. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
39. Become steeper.
43. A genus of Ploceidae.
46. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
49. The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty.
51. An associate degree in nursing.
52. A member of the Caddo people of NE Texas.
56. Two-year-old sheep.
59. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
61. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
62. A Loloish language.
63. Any plant of the genus Inula.
64. A projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint.
65. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
67. Acrylic resin used to make a strong soft crease-resistant fabric (trade name Acrilan).
69. Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910).
71. Singing jazz.
73. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
74. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
76. A state in the eastern United States.
77. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
80. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
88. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
89. Short and fat.
92. One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada.
93. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
94. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
96. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
97. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
98. Not in action or at work.
99. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
100. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. Type genus of the Bramidae.
3. US slang for Canadians in general and French Canadians in particular.
4. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
5. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
6. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
7. Board a plane.
8. Of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion.
9. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
10. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
11. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
12. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
13. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
14. Showing deterioration from age.
15. A republic in eastern Africa.
25. Large shrimp sauteed in oil or butter and garlic.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
31. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
34. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
35. Spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins).
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. With one layer on top of another.
40. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
41. A beautiful and graceful girl.
42. At or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time.
44. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
45. Relating to the Andes and their inhabitants.
47. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events.
48. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion.
50. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
53. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
54. A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters.
55. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
57. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
58. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
60. Of or relating to or indicative of or issued or performed by a king or queen or other monarch.
66. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
68. Made clean.
70. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
72. Covered with paving material.
73. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
75. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
76. A public promotion of some product or service.
78. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
79. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
81. Toward the mouth or oral region.
82. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
83. A prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor.
84. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
85. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
86. A thrusting blow with a knife.
87. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
88. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
90. A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus).
91. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
95. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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