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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
4. A family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia.
9. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
13. Any federal law-enforcement officer.
16. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
17. Run away secretly with one's beloved.
18. Take by theft.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
21. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
23. (Arthurian legend) The battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded.
25. Leafless East Indian vine.
27. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
28. New Guinea echidnas.
29. A sloping edge on a cutting tool.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. The direct method of cell division characterized by simple division of the nucleus without formation of chromosomes.
38. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
41. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
42. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
43. A state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal.
45. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
46. Type genus of the Annonaceae.
49. Lower in esteem.
51. Taking place over public roads.
52. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
54. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
56. A doctor's degree in religion.
57. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
59. A tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game.
63. A steep descent of the water of a river.
65. German hero.
66. Long and thin and often limp.
67. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
68. East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks.
71. A slap with the flat of the hand.
73. A public promotion of some product or service.
74. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
76. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
77. An uproarious party.
78. Tag the base runner to get him out.
81. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
83. A town of Denmark in north central Jutland.
87. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
90. A fastener for a door or lid.
93. A residential area outside of a city and beyond suburbia.
95. German composer (1833-1897).
98. Water frozen in the solid state.
99. (Irish) The sea personified.
100. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
102. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
103. A light touch or stroke.
104. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
105. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
106. A notice of someone's death.
107. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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1. (poetic) Tranquil silence.
2. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
3. German mathematician (1804-1851).
4. Any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa.
5. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
6. A republic in extreme eastern Africa on the Somali Peninsula.
7. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
8. A student who studies excessively.
9. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
12. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. Ornamental objects of no great value.
14. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
15. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
22. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
24. An optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects.
26. A way of doing something, esp. a systematic one.
30. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
31. Family based on male descent.
34. A plant that bears fruit once and dies.
35. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
36. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
37. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions.
39. Acting according to certain accepted standards.
40. German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859).
44. A port city in southwestern Iran.
47. The state that precedes vomiting.
48. In bed.
50. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
53. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
55. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
58. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
60. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
61. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
62. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
64. Ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty.
69. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
70. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
72. Soviet gymnast (born in 1955).
73. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
75. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
79. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
80. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
82. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
83. An associate degree in nursing.
84. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
85. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
86. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
88. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
89. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
91. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
92. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
94. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
96. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
97. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
101. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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