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1. The dressed hairy coat of a mammal.
4. Chief port and economic center of Nigeria.
9. A boy or man.
13. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. Treasure of unknown ownership found hidden (usually in the earth).
18. (Christianity) The abode of Satan and the forces of evil.
19. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
20. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
21. A runner in a one-mile race.
22. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
23. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
24. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
26. An airfield equipped with control tower and hangers as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo.
28. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
30. The cry made by sheep.
32. A state in northwestern North America.
33. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
34. A state in east central United States.
36. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
37. Of the nature of or undergoing an experiment.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. Swiss mathematician (1707-1783).
42. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
43. 16 ounces.
44. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
48. Armor plate that protects the chest.
50. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
53. A stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat.
56. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
57. French lexicographer (1801-1881).
58. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
59. A roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked).
63. Black tropical American cuckoo.
64. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
66. Take one's time.
67. Found pleasant or attractive.
69. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
73. A member of the people inhabiting an area of northern Mongolia and eastern Siberia.
76. Antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns.
77. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
83. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
85. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
88. The front limb of a quadruped.
90. (informal) Of the highest quality.
93. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
94. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
95. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
96. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
98. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
99. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
100. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
101. The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work.
102. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
2. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
3. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
4. Your general store of remembered information.
5. An elaborate song for solo voice.
6. (Old Testament) A giant Philistine warrior who David slayed with a slingshot.
7. Defeat (oneself) by going too far.
8. Antihypertensive consisting of an alkaloid extracted from the plant Rauwolfia serpentina (trade names Raudixin or Rau-Sed or Sandril or Serpasil).
9. Make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird.
10. Capable of becoming hot.
11. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
12. Colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended.
13. A domain in which something is dominant.
14. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
15. An evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia.
25. Up to the immediate present.
27. Tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell.
29. A town in central Belgium.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. Of or relating to or characteristic of the former country of Yugoslavia or its people or languages.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. Having relatively few calories.
45. A shot or scene that is photographed again v 1.
46. Gained or acquired.
47. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
49. 1/10 gram.
51. A unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second.
52. A long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods).
54. A member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec.
55. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
60. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
61. Affectedly dainty or refined.
62. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
65. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.
68. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
70. A Black woman or girl.
71. A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables.
72. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
74. A Spanish female Gypsy.
75. Type genus of the Ranidae.
78. A radioactive transuranic element.
79. Brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula.
80. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
81. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
82. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
84. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
85. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
86. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
87. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
89. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
91. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
92. One ten thousandth of a centner.
93. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
97. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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