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1. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
4. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
8. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
12. Any small compartment.
16. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
17. A gully that is shallower than a ravine.
18. Not only so, but.
19. On or toward the lee.
20. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
21. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
22. (prefix) Outside or outer.
23. Type genus of the Ranidae.
24. Singing jazz.
26. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
28. Related by marriage.
30. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
32. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
35. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
36. United States writer of plays and short stories (1908-1981).
40. A system of projects or services intended to meet a public need.
44. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
45. The least possible.
47. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
49. A refund of some fraction of the amount paid.
51. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
53. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
54. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
55. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
56. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
57. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
58. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
60. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
62. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
64. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
65. The highest point of something.
66. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
67. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
71. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
72. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
73. Give expression to.
76. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
80. The basic unit of money in Albania.
81. King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975).
83. Time during which some action is awaited.
85. A telegram sent abroad.
89. Having a systematic arrangement.
91. A city in Veneto on the River Adige.
93. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
94. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
95. Lower in esteem.
97. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
98. Being two more than fifty.
99. A boy or man.
100. All the loaves of bread baked at the same time.
101. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
102. Water frozen in the solid state.
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1. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
4. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
5. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
6. Gin (or vodka) with dry vermouth.
7. Stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult v 1.
8. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
9. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
10. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram.
12. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
13. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
14. A Russian river.
15. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
25. United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859).
27. Relating to or characteristic of alps.
29. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
31. Minor or subordinate.
33. A large fleet.
34. Making low inarticulate sound as e.g. of pain or sorrow.
37. A passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement.
38. A contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days.
39. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
41. Cover with ice or snow or a glacier.
42. (chemistry) Having a valence of two or having two valences.
43. A prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite.
46. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
48. A member of a North American Indian people of central Arizona.
50. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
52. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
59. Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
61. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
63. Traveling on horseback.
68. (often followed by `for') Ardently or excessively desirous.
69. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known a Iraq.
70. The space between two lines or planes that intersect.
74. Of texture.
75. The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).
77. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
78. Having help.
79. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
82. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
84. A Hindu theistic philosophy.
85. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
86. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
87. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
88. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
90. An audiotape recording of sound.
92. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
96. A white trivalent metallic element.
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