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1. Botfly larva.
4. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
9. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
13. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
16. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
17. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
20. (of a liquid) Treated by having air passed or bubbled through it for purification.
22. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
24. A young woman making her debut into society.
25. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
26. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
28. Roman emperor and adoptive son of Nerva.
30. A ceremonial dinner party for many people.
32. An indication of approved or superior status.
34. A woman of refinement.
37. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
38. A genus of Vespertilionidae.
42. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
43. A pass between mountain peaks.
46. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
47. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
50. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
51. Toward the mouth or oral region.
52. British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925).
55. Before noon.
56. A percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators.
57. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. American dramatist (1928- ).
62. A fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant.
64. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
68. A member of the British order of honor.
69. Fly a plane.
72. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
74. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
76. A state in the eastern United States.
77. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
81. Long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill.
84. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
86. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
87. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
89. Any of various units of weight used in SE Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams).
91. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
92. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
93. A surface burn.
95. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
96. Of southern Europe.
97. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
98. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
99. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
100. A city in north central Morocco.
101. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
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1. South African term for `boss'.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. A three-tone Chadic language.
4. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
5. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
6. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
7. A public promotion of some product or service.
8. Type genus of the Nepidae.
9. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
10. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
11. Any of several bog orchids of the genus Arethusa having 1 or 2 showy flowers.
12. Equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged.
13. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
14. The content of cognition.
15. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
21. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
23. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
27. A set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents.
29. Spider monkeys.
31. The square of a body of any size of type.
33. All the New World monkeys except marmosets and tamarins.
35. Experiencing a sudden sense of danger.
36. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
39. Greek wine flavored with resin.
40. Someone who controls resources and expenditures.
41. Not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course.
44. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
45. A bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end.
48. Moving quickly and lightly.
49. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
53. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
54. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
59. The cry made by sheep.
60. Convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid.
63. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
65. Relating to or involving the stomach.
66. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
67. Egg-shaped terra-cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes.
68. Equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged.
70. Stalk of a moss capsule.
71. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
73. A means of serving.
74. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
75. Closed with a lace.
78. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
79. Lower in esteem.
80. An acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands.
82. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
83. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
84. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
85. A protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers.
88. A transuranic element.
90. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
94. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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