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1. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
4. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
16. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
17. Low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage.
18. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
20. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
22. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.
24. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
26. Of a pale purple color.
27. The vein in the center of a leaf.
29. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
30. An advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future.
31. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
34. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
36. Greek mythology.
40. Not out.
43. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
45. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
46. A member of the South American people living in Argentina and Bolivia and Paraguay.
49. Confined to bed (by illness).
51. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
52. How long something has existed.
53. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
57. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
59. Capital of modern Macedonia.
62. Employed in accomplishing something.
63. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
64. Muslim name for God.
65. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
67. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
69. The basic unit of money in Lesotho.
70. Somewhat late.
74. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
76. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
78. Alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales.
81. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
83. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
87. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
88. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
91. Type genus of the Anatidae.
93. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
94. Blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi.
95. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
96. A floor covering.
97. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
98. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
99. Related on the mother's side.
100. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
101. The residue that remains when something is burned.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. A beautiful and graceful girl.
3. Create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material.
4. The unlimited 3-dimensional expanse in which everything is located.
5. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
6. A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body).
7. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
8. Major items of military weaponry (as tanks or missile).
9. Italian poet (1569-1625).
10. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
11. Having much flesh (especially fat).
12. A port city in southwestern Iran.
13. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
14. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
15. (Judaism) Not conforming to dietary laws.
21. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
23. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
25. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
28. A large outdoor fire.
33. Moth whose larvae are flour moths.
35. Genus of showy plants of western North America having palmate leaves and variously colored racemose flowers.
37. Small slender toy spaniel with erect ears and a black-spotted brown to white coat.
38. Cause to grow thin or weak.
39. The condition of having no arms.
41. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
42. Find repugnant.
44. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
47. An event that repeats.
48. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
50. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
54. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
56. A revue with elaborate costuming.
58. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
60. A superior grade of black tea.
61. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
66. The spirit of evil in Zoroastrianism.
67. A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body).
68. A republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula.
69. Having much flesh (especially fat).
71. Cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain.
72. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
73. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
75. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
77. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
79. 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.
80. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
82. Disabled in the feet or legs.
84. Type genus of the Amiidae.
85. South African term for `boss'.
86. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
89. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
90. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
92. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
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