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1. (classical architecture) A molding for a cornice.
5. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
9. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
13. A light touch or stroke.
16. Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
17. English essayist (1775-1834).
18. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
19. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
20. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
21. (music) Characterized by avoidance of traditional Western tonality.
23. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
25. Unhappy in love.
27. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
29. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
30. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
31. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
34. United States film actress (born in Sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990).
42. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
44. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
45. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
47. Of or pertaining to or written in Altaic.
48. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
51. Being two more than fifty.
52. Flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height.
54. Scottish dramatist and novelist.
56. Battle in which the ruler of Afghanistan defeated the Mahrattas in 1761.
59. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
61. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
62. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
64. A mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women.
65. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
66. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
67. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
69. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
70. A city in central Tanzania.
73. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
74. Superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins.
78. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
79. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
81. Fiddler crabs.
82. Deeply eroded barren land.
86. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
88. A Hindu prince or king in India.
92. A lack of vitality.
95. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
96. A flexible container with a single opening.
97. (medicine) Having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course.
99. A Russian river.
100. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
101. 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.
102. German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia (1868-1934).
103. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
104. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
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1. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
2. The time that has elapsed.
3. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
4. Herbs of Mediterranean to central Asia cultivated for their flowers.
5. A United States youth subculture of the 1950s.
6. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
7. Large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male.
8. Be successful.
9. Offering fun and gaiety.
10. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
11. An associate degree in applied science.
12. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
13. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
14. The sixth month of the civil year.
15. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
22. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
24. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
26. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
28. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
32. (British) A peddler of sand at a seashore resort.
33. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
35. A genus of herbs of the family Cruciferae.
36. The light-sensitive membrane covering the back wall of the eyeball.
37. A disorderly outburst or tumult.
38. A large quantity of written matter.
39. Tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit.
40. Collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamen and carpel.
41. Beneath the surface of the sea.
43. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
46. A tunic worn over a knight's armor.
49. An ancient city is southern Greece.
50. Crowd or pack to capacity.
53. Of or relating to near the ear.
55. The eleventh month of the civil year.
57. Completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose.
58. A set of two similar things considered as a unit.
60. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
63. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
68. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
71. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
72. Used especially in treating bruises.
75. A geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam.
76. A state in southeastern United States.
77. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
80. A steep descent of the water of a river.
83. Type genus of the Anatidae.
84. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
85. Material used to daub walls.
87. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
89. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
90. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
91. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
93. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
94. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
98. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
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