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1. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
4. (rugby football) The method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms.
9. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
13. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
16. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
17. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
18. Little known Kamarupan languages.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
21. An oral drug (trade name Mevacor) to reduce blood cholesterol levels.
23. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
25. Coffee trees.
27. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
29. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
30. Before noon.
31. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
33. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
37. United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927).
39. Squash bugs.
42. (music) The system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written.
45. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
47. Slightly open.
48. Tree (as opposed to shrub).
49. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
51. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
52. A small lobe or subdivision of a lobe.
54. Having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation.
56. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
57. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
58. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
59. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
60. Fast-growing East Asian vine having hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long many-seed hairy pods and tuberous starchy roots.
63. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. A quantity of no importance.
68. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
73. Tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw.
77. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
79. A benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass.
80. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
81. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
83. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
85. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
89. (S Africa) Meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun.
92. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
93. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
94. Informal terms for money.
96. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
97. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
98. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
99. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
100. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
101. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
2. A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language.
3. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
4. Same in identity.
5. Thick like cream.
6. Rate of revolution of a motor.
7. Fiddler crabs.
8. Covered with paving material.
9. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
10. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
11. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. A great raja.
14. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
15. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
22. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
24. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
26. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people.
28. Loss of hair (especially on the head) or wool or feathers.
32. Have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal.
34. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
35. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
36. Common black European thrush.
38. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
40. A system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature.
41. A river in central Brazil that flows generally northward (with many falls) to join the Tocantins River.
43. Relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator).
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. The capital and largest city of Japan.
50. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
53. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
55. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
61. Not subjected to an aging process.
62. An informal term for a father.
64. Somewhat flattened cylindrical squid.
66. Antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatening arrhythmias but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients.
69. A concave molding shaped like a quarter circle in cross section.
70. Under a moral obligation to do something.
71. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
72. God of the earth.
74. A projection used for strength or for attaching to another object.
75. A reflex response to sudden pain.
76. Erect plant with small clusters of pink trumpet-shaped flowers of southwestern United States.
77. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
78. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
82. Having a long narrow cut.
84. A small vessel for travel on water.
86. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
87. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
88. A city in northern India.
90. A unit of pressure.
91. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
95. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
96. Before noon.
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