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1. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
4. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
9. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
13. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
16. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
17. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.
18. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
22. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
23. A written message addressed to a person or organization.
25. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
27. The mints.
29. Of humankind as a species.
32. Inclined to waste time and lag behind.
33. A synthetic narcotic drug (trade name Demerol) used to treat pain.
36. Take in solid food.
38. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
39. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
43. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
47. Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896).
49. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
50. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
52. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
53. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
55. (in Indian English) The number that is represented as a one followed by 7 zeros.
56. A state in the eastern United States.
58. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
59. A monoamine neurotransmitter found in the brain and essential for the normal functioning of the central nervous system.
65. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
66. Unknown god.
67. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
70. A quantity of no importance.
71. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
73. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
75. Any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries.
79. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
84. In an immature manner.
87. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
88. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
90. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
91. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
92. The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient).
93. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
95. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
96. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
97. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
98. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
99. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
2. Toward the mouth or oral region.
3. A Russian river.
4. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
5. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
6. A purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens.
7. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
8. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
9. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
10. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
11. Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931).
12. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
13. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
14. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
15. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
21. Be compatible or in accordance with.
24. A member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila.
26. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
28. Double star 15.7 light years from Earth.
30. Using speech rather than writing.
31. Tawny-colored African antelope inhabiting wet grassy plains.
34. Extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree.
35. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
37. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
40. Tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp.
41. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
42. A republic in northeastern Europe on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea.
44. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
45. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
46. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
48. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
51. A proportion multiplied by 100.
54. A mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high).
57. A public promotion of some product or service.
60. A farewell remark.
61. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
62. (informal) The best of its kind n.
63. (spoken slang) Unfashionable and boring.
64. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
68. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
69. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
72. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
74. A pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole.
76. One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills.
77. Having winglike extensions.
78. An Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean.
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
80. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
81. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
85. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
86. A metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping.
89. An electrically charged particle.
94. Being one more than one.
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