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1. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
4. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
13. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
16. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
17. A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia north of Afghanistan.
18. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
19. Any high mountain.
20. A notable achievement.
22. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
24. An ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile.
26. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
28. Humorously vulgar.
29. A medium to dark brownish yellow color.
30. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
32. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
34. Broken into sharp pieces.
38. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
40. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
41. Free from error.
44. Any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers.
48. Medical instrument consisting of a magnifying lens and light.
49. A slender double-reed instrument.
51. An organization of military land forces.
52. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
53. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
55. The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II.
57. A soft silvery metallic element.
60. A West African language closely related to Fula.
61. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
62. A medium for oil-paints.
65. Tree (as opposed to shrub).
67. A depression in an otherwise level surface.
68. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
69. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
73. Joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces.
74. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
75. A state in northwestern North America.
77. Chief port of Yemen.
78. A member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley.
82. Sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae.
84. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
85. Extremely robust.
89. Gone by.
90. A bar of sand.
92. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
93. An advanced law degree.
94. A primeval personification of air and breath.
95. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
97. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
98. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
99. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
100. A plant lacking a permanent woody stem.
101. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
3. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
4. A New England state.
5. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
6. Slightly open.
7. A toxic protein extracted from castor beans.
8. Jordan's port.
9. North American bluebirds.
10. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
11. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
12. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
13. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
14. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
15. Thin and fit.
21. A character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote.
23. A periodic paperback publication.
25. Resembling an umbel in form.
27. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
31. Dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa.
33. (law) A courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge in a trial that is held out of the jury's hearing.
35. A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu.
36. Highly excited.
37. Type genus of the Dipodidae.
39. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
42. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
43. A matador or one of the supporting team during a bull fight.
45. The father of your father or mother.
46. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
47. Antibacterial (trade name Dynapen) used to treat staphylococcal infections that are resistant to penicillin.
50. Found along western Atlantic coast.
54. 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.
56. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
58. Covered with paving material.
59. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
63. Experiencing or expressing gladness or joy.
64. The visual percept of a region.
66. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
70. A theatrical performance held during the daytime (especially in the afternoon).
71. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
72. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
73. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
76. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
79. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
80. Tastelessly showy.
81. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
83. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
86. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
87. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
88. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
91. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
96. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
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