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1. Type and only genus of the family Tytonidae.
5. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
9. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
13. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
16. Not easy.
17. Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province.
18. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
19. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
20. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
21. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
22. Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.
24. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
26. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
28. An early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica.
31. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
32. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
34. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
35. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
37. A very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole).
40. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
45. An associate degree in nursing.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
49. A trivalent metalloid element.
50. An informal conversation.
52. Soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
54. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. (botany) A covering that resembles scales or bran that covers some plant parts.
57. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
58. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
59. A colorless odorless gas used as fuel.
61. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
63. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
64. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
66. A person who weeps.
68. A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny.
70. (linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed.
73. An event (or course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future.
74. (informal) Exceptionally good.
76. Being one more than one.
77. Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements.
79. A short high-pitched noise.
83. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
84. A railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling.
86. A soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative.
91. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
92. A genus of Bothidae.
95. Spanish Catholic theologian and founder of the Society of Jesus.
96. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
97. Not restrained or confined or attached.
98. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
100. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
101. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
102. A woman gossip.
103. God of death.
104. The month following February and preceding April.
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1. The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid.
2. A university in Connecticut.
3. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
4. A doctor's degree in optometry.
5. Made of bamboo.
6. Before noon.
7. The act of losing.
8. An ancient region on the coast of southwest Asia Minor.
9. Type genus of the Caricaceae.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
11. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
12. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
13. A city in Tuscany.
14. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
15. Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers.
23. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
25. English actress noted for her performances in Shakespearean roles (1755-1831).
27. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
29. Declare invalid.
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
33. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
36. A three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides.
38. Obtain from someone after their death.
39. Patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes.
41. A professional cook.
42. Of or involving or contained in the arteries.
43. French neurologist (1857-1904).
44. Caught as if in a mesh.
48. Any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
51. Lower in esteem.
53. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
56. Not paid.
60. Small branch or division of a branch.
62. A radioactive transuranic element.
65. To fix or set securely or deeply.
67. Used by northerners of Confederate soldiers.
69. Noisy quarrel.
71. A genus of Psittacidae.
72. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
75. Not often.
78. Felt hat with a creased crown.
80. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
81. Take away the weapons from.
82. A town in central Belgium.
83. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
85. Extremely robust.
87. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
88. A standard or model or pattern regarded as typical.
89. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
90. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
93. Seed of a pea plant.
94. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
99. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
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