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1. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
5. Avatar of Vishnu.
9. A slender double-reed instrument.
13. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
16. On or toward the lee.
17. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
18. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
19. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
20. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
21. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
22. A man who courts a woman.
23. A unit of pressure.
24. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
26. United States politician and orator (1782-1817).
29. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
30. A young horse.
31. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
32. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
34. Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field.
36. Immediately past.
40. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
43. Not clearly understood or expressed.
44. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
46. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
48. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
50. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
51. Provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate.
54. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
56. Of the color of rust.
57. Make less active or intense.
59. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
61. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
62. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
63. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
65. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
67. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
69. That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency.
70. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
71. An Anatolian language.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
83. Steal goods.
87. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
88. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
91. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
92. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
93. Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ.
94. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
96. A strong emotion.
97. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
98. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
99. Wearing or provided with clothing.
100. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
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1. A framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. The airforce of Great Britain.
6. (Welsh myth) The other world.
7. A rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo).
8. A resident of Alabama.
9. A kiln for drying hops.
10. Small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head.
11. A segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene.
12. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
13. (informal) Exceptionally good.
14. A course of conduct.
15. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
25. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
27. Speaking a Slavic language.
28. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
33. The state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once).
35. Being one more than seven.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
38. Someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act.
39. Being of the age 13 through 19.
41. A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.
42. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
45. One of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars.
47. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
52. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language.
53. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
55. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
58. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
60. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
64. (archaic) A fitting reward.
66. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
68. Very spicy sauce made from tabasco peppers.
69. The airforce of Great Britain.
72. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
73. (of skin) Having a tan color from exposure to the sun.
75. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
76. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
77. English monk and scholar (672-735).
79. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
80. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
81. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
82. The capability of conscious choice and decision and intention.
84. Type genus of the Amiidae.
85. (British slang) An absolute certainty.
86. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
89. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
90. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
91. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
95. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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