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1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
16. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
17. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
18. An Asian river between China and Russia.
19. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
20. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
21. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
22. A metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping.
23. An associate degree in applied science.
24. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
26. (trademark) An antacid.
29. Rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel.
30. A negative.
31. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
33. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
39. Of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color n 1.
43. A port city of northeastern Brazil on the Atlantic.
46. East Indian annual erect herb.
47. The organ that bears the ovules of a flower.
48. An entire system.
50. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
51. A statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief.
52. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
54. A caustic substance (Ca(OH)2) produced by heating limestone.
55. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
58. 16 ounces.
59. 100 fen equal 1 yuan.
60. A woman's large folded hooped hood.
63. A Hindu prince or king in India.
65. Advanced in years.
66. Analgesic drug (trade name Talwin) that is less addictive than morphine.
69. Compelled forcibly by an outside agency.
71. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
72. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
74. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
76. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
79. A Loloish language.
81. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
83. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
88. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
91. Boas and pythons.
92. A strong emotion.
93. (medicine) Having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course.
94. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
96. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
97. A doctor's degree in education.
98. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands.
99. A small cake leavened with yeast.
100. A groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels).
101. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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1. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula.
2. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
3. A swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana).
4. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
5. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
6. (British informal) Stark naked.
7. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
8. (Greek mythology) A giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis.
9. Leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion.
10. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
11. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
12. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
13. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
14. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
15. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
25. The capital of Eritrea.
27. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
28. Relating to bone or to the skeleton.
32. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
34. Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948).
35. Closely confined.
36. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
37. Covered with or as if with a glossy and usually brightly colored coating.
38. A musical composition in several movements.
40. Too old to be useful.
41. A leisurely walk (usually in some public place).
42. Expressing deep personal emotion.
44. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
45. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
49. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
56. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
57. Soft creamy white cheese.
61. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
62. A set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents.
64. A landlocked republic in southern central Africa.
67. Having lips or parts that resemble lips.
68. Of or relating to or derived from wheat.
70. 1 species.
73. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
75. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
77. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
78. Come to pass.
79. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
80. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
82. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
84. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
85. A European river.
86. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
87. Quick and skillful in movement.
89. Noisy talk.
90. Fiddler crabs.
95. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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