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1. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
9. Derive or receive pleasure from.
13. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
16. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
17. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
18. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
19. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
20. Small genus of Eurasian shrubs with yellow flowers and bladdery pods.
22. The jurisdiction or office of an abbot.
24. Of the blackest black.
25. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
26. Tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems.
29. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
30. A slender and greatly elongated solid substance.
32. Possible to sell.
36. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
37. A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk.
39. A coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current.
42. Wild ox.
46. The act of drawing or hauling something.
47. Having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses).
50. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
51. A substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned.
52. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
53. Canadian economist best remembered for his humorous writings (1869-1944).
55. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
56. At or constituting a border or edge.
59. Provided with artificial light.
60. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
61. Ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt).
63. Important food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor.
65. French painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883).
69. A rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika.
70. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
71. 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.
72. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
73. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
74. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
75. The square of a body of any size of type.
79. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
82. Small genus sometimes included in genus Onoclea.
86. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
89. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
90. Type genus of the family Zygnemataceae.
91. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
92. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
94. Uttering in an irritated tone.
96. A proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages).
97. Advanced in years.
98. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
99. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
100. Take in solid food.
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1. Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area.
2. The address where a person lives.
3. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
4. True confidential information.
5. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
6. A seat for one person, with a support for the back.
7. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
8. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
9. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
10. Jordan's port.
11. Cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain.
12. Serving as an essential component.
13. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
14. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
15. The basic unit of length adopted under the System International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards).
21. Not provided with fuel.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
28. Wildly disordered.
31. Highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace).
33. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
34. Small genus of tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having pods like those of the acacia.
35. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
38. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
40. (Greek mythology) The goddess of health.
41. Enthusiastic approval.
43. Evergreen climbing shrub of southern Florida and West Indies grown for its racemes of fragrant white to creamy flowers followed by globose white succulent berries.
44. The medieval dialects of Langue d'oc.
45. A Hindu sect worshiping Shakti.
48. Having been taken in marriage.
49. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
54. Any of various plants of the genus Albuca having large clusters of pale yellow flowers.
57. A small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix.
58. A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck.
62. An oral beta blocker (trade name Visken) used in treating hypertension.
64. Somewhat elderly.
66. A green transparent form of beryl.
67. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
68. The basic unit of money in Guatemala.
69. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
76. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.
77. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
78. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
80. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
81. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
83. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
84. A three-tone Chadic language.
85. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
86. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
87. The template for protein synthesis.
88. Being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north.
93. One million periods per second.
95. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
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