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1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. Flat and uninspiring.
8. Hit hard.
12. Advanced in years.
16. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
17. In bed.
18. A kiln for drying hops.
19. Produced by a manufacturing process.
20. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
21. Deadly or sinister.
23. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
24. (informal) The best of its kind n.
26. A fold of peritoneum supporting the viscera.
28. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
29. Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).
31. Cause to become detached or separated.
33. Having spots or patches of color.
35. The business of a dairy.
39. A genus of Indriidae.
40. Distant in either space or time.
44. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
45. The act of scanning.
46. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
49. Everything you own.
51. Toward the mouth or oral region.
53. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
55. A groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels).
56. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
58. Of or relating to or involving an area.
59. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
61. Coffee-flavored liqueur made in Mexico.
63. A ballroom dance of Latin-American origin.
64. Any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum.
65. Of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation.
67. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
68. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
69. (Judaism) A period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative.
74. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
76. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
77. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
79. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
81. A French abbot.
84. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
87. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
91. Armor plate that protects the chest.
92. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
94. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
97. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
98. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
99. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
100. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
101. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
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1. An inhabitant of Lappland.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. Class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on part or all of the surface during some part of the life cycle.
4. (Lebanese) A finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Blister beetles.
7. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
8. Put in a coil n 1.
9. Brought to a halt.
10. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
11. Any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria.
12. Of a moderate purple color n.
13. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
14. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
15. Made of fir or pine.
22. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
25. A way of doing something, esp. a systematic one.
27. A state in the western United States.
30. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
32. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
34. Tax excessively.
36. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
37. The practice of living without clothes for reasons of health.
38. Chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants.
41. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
42. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
43. A republic on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean.
47. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
48. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
50. A thrusting blow with a knife.
52. Type genus of the Aphididae.
54. Submerged freshwater perennials.
57. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
60. Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics.
62. City in northeast Pakistan.
66. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
67. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
70. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
71. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
72. A public promotion of some product or service.
73. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
75. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941).
78. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
80. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
82. (informal) Very tired.
83. A small cake leavened with yeast.
84. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
85. Make or emit a high tinkling sound.
86. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
88. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
89. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
90. A light touch or stroke.
93. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
95. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
96. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
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