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1. Of southern Europe.
4. Lower in esteem.
9. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
16. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
17. A form of Japanese poetry.
18. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
19. The younger of two major political parties in the United States.
20. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
21. Situated at or extending to the side.
23. Give a definition for the meaning of a word.
25. A genus of Ploceidae.
27. The first event in a series.
28. British composer (1857-1934).
29. A gum used especially as a thickener or emulsifier.
31. Take in solid food.
32. A soft silvery metallic element.
36. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
38. A light touch or stroke.
40. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
44. Atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility.
46. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
48. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
49. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
51. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
52. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
54. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
55. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
61. North American yellow-breasted songbirds.
63. A noisy or scolding or domineering woman.
64. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
65. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
67. Lively and spirited.
69. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
70. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
72. A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown.
73. A Mid-Atlantic state.
74. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
78. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
80. A diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound.
87. (informal) A witty amusing person who makes jokes.
90. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
92. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
93. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
94. English monk and scholar (672-735).
95. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
96. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
97. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
98. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
99. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
100. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
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1. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
2. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
3. A deposit of personal property as security for a debt.
4. State capital and largest city of Georgia.
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars.
7. A large round wicker basket (used on farms).
8. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
9. A public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes.
10. The square of a body of any size of type.
11. A resource.
12. English Catholic novelist (1904-1991).
13. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
14. An atom having a valence of one.
15. A drama set to music.
22. An associate degree in nursing.
24. Feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight.
26. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
30. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
33. A card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker.
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
37. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. Brazilian statesman who ruled Brazil as a virtual dictator (1883-1954).
42. Having the skin scraped off.
43. A coarse lace.
45. The capital of Croatia.
47. Long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family.
50. Signal going into an electronic system.
53. The size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves.
56. Broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects.
57. Stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut.
58. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
59. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
60. An island in the southern Mariana Islands that is the administrative center of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. A small piece of cloth.
68. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
71. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
75. Of or relating to the former Indo-European people.
76. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
77. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
78. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
79. A small cake leavened with yeast.
81. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
82. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
83. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
84. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite.
85. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
86. Make amends for.
88. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
89. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
91. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
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