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1. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
4. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
13. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
16. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.
17. Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931).
18. Originally a stronghold captured by David (the 2nd king of the Israelites).
19. A human limb.
20. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
22. Use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one.
24. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
25. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
26. 10 grams.
29. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
31. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
32. A port city in southwestern Iran.
34. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
36. Obvious and dull.
41. An established ceremony prescribed by a religion.
43. Inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable.
45. Type genus of the Amiidae.
49. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
50. God of love and erotic desire.
51. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
52. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
53. Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression).
55. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
58. A period of time spent sleeping.
61. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
63. A state in midwestern United States.
64. Someone who fails to meet a financial obligation.
69. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
70. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
72. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
73. Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the second Punic War and defeated Hannibal at Zama (circa 237-183 BC).
74. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
75. A genus of Indriidae.
78. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
80. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
84. The 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
85. A special loved one.
87. In the Roman calendar.
88. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
92. Not in.
95. Slightly open.
97. (British) Your grandmother.
98. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
99. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
100. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
101. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
102. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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1. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
2. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
3. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
4. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
5. An ancient Iranian language.
6. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
7. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
8. A member of a Muslim Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan).
9. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
10. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
11. A member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids.
12. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
13. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
14. 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.
15. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
21. An oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas.
23. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
27. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
28. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
33. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
35. A genus of the family Droseraceae.
37. (Greek mythology) Winged goddess of victory.
38. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. Hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes.
42. A surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull.
44. A quantity of no importance.
46. The month following February and preceding April.
47. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
48. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
54. Slightly sour to the taste.
56. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
57. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
59. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
60. Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway.
62. Felt hat with a creased crown.
65. Having gaps or spaces.
66. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
67. The eighth month of the Hindu calendar.
68. One thousand grams.
71. (biology) Having branches or flower heads that bend downward.
76. A numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
77. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
79. The fatty flesh of eel.
81. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
86. A Hindu prince or king in India.
89. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
90. Tooth on the rim of gear wheel.
91. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
93. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
94. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
96. A state in northwestern North America.
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