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1. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
4. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
9. In addition.
13. A shape that sags.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).
18. Any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action.
19. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
20. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.
22. Small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail.
25. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
26. A state in the eastern United States.
27. A person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant).
28. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
29. Genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas.
32. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
34. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
37. A tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing.
40. (British) An abbreviation of pantomime.
44. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
45. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
49. Take by theft.
51. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
52. Discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.
53. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
54. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
55. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
57. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
60. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
61. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
62. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
63. The noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine).
64. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
66. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
69. Genus of shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico.
71. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
72. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
75. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
76. Any of several compounds of barium.
80. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
83. In a physically fierce manner.
87. Type genus of the Anatidae.
88. The striking of one body against another.
91. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
92. The cry made by sheep.
93. The act of losing.
94. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
95. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
97. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
98. A Loloish language.
99. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
100. A small cake leavened with yeast.
101. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
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1. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
2. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
3. A port city in northern Vietnam.
4. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
5. Find the solution to (a problem or question).
6. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
7. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
8. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
9. Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder.
10. The literary intelligentsia.
11. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
12. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
13. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
14. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
15. Any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae.
21. Something many people believe that is false.
23. Being one more than one hundred.
24. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
30. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
31. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
33. A form of address for a man.
35. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
36. In some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera.
38. An intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs.
39. Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit.
41. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
42. Anchovy pear tree.
43. German hero.
46. Any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis.
47. Being one more than nine.
48. At full speed.
50. The scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting).
56. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
58. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
59. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
65. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
66. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
67. Very great.
68. An audiotape recording of sound.
70. Type genus of the Coerebidae.
73. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
74. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
77. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
78. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
81. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
82. Imprudently incurring risk.
84. Very dark black.
85. A field of cultivated and mowed grass.
86. A university in Connecticut.
89. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
90. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
96. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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