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1. 32nd President of the United States.
4. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
9. Being four more than sixty.
13. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
16. Being two more than fifty.
17. Lower in esteem.
18. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
19. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
20. Attribute to a source or cause.
22. (Old Testament) A youth who was taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into a den of lions (6th century BC).
24. How long something has existed.
25. Annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains.
26. One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.
27. King of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC).
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
33. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
36. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
37. American novelist noted for children's books (1832-1888).
40. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
43. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
45. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
46. Raised for its long silky hair which is the true mohair.
49. Before noon.
50. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
51. A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone.
52. A town in central Belgium.
54. One of the common people.
56. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
59. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
60. Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field.
62. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
63. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
65. A primeval personification of air and breath.
66. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
67. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
68. Australian clover fern.
70. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
73. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
74. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
77. A member of a people of India living in Maharashtra.
82. English monk and scholar (672-735).
84. (Old Testament) The first king of the Israelites who defended Israel against many enemies (especially the Philistines).
88. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
89. Type genus of the family Zygnemataceae.
92. The products of human creativity.
94. A slender double-reed instrument.
96. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
97. Rate of revolution of a motor.
98. Small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward.
99. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
100. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
101. Informal terms for a mother.
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1. An imperfection in a device or machine.
2. A piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food.
3. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.
4. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
5. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
6. A pause or interruption (as in a conversation).
7. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
8. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
9. A local computer network for communication between computers.
10. Being two more than forty.
11. Water frozen in the solid state.
12. A heavenly place (peaceful and beautiful) where those who are favored by the gods can go when they die.
13. The title of the ancient Egyptian kings.
14. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
15. Advanced in years.
21. The fur of the North American racoon.
23. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
28. Live in or as if in a tent.
31. A city and port in northern Jutland.
32. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
34. The visual percept of a region.
35. A skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching.
38. Medium tall celery pine of New Zealand.
39. An assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business.
41. (Greek mythology) The brother of Jocasta and uncle of Antigone who became king of Thebes after the fall of Oedipus.
42. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
44. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.
47. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
48. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
53. Advance evidence for.
55. Made of grated potato and egg with a little flour.
57. In bed.
58. The capital of Cape Verde on Sao Tiago Island.
61. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.
64. A monosaccharide sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is hemiacetal.
69. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
71. A French abbot.
72. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
73. Being two more than fifty.
75. Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam.
76. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
78. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
79. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
80. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
81. A river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea.
83. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
85. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
86. A slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum.
87. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
90. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
91. The basic unit of money in Romania.
93. 16 ounces.
95. A Russian river.
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