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1. A member of the British order of honor.
5. (British) Colloquial terms for an umbrella.
9. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
13. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
16. A European river.
17. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
18. Capital and largest city of Italy.
19. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
20. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
21. A circular segment of a curve.
22. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
23. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
24. A fragment of brick used as a weapon.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. Hardy evergreen dioecious shrubs and small trees from Japan.
29. The third month of the civil year.
31. A member of a Turkic people living in Turkmenistan and neighboring areas.
33. United States religious leader who was the first person born in the United States to be canonized (1774-1821).
35. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
37. Understood in a certain way.
38. An associate degree in nursing.
42. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
45. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
47. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
48. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
49. A populous province in northeastern China.
51. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
52. Coming at a subsequent time or stage.
54. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
56. The template for protein synthesis.
57. Oil palms.
60. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
62. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
63. A temporary police force.
64. A group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast.
65. A British doctorate.
67. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
70. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. A three-tone Chadic language.
74. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
76. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
79. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
82. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
86. A linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em.
89. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
91. Employed in accomplishing something.
92. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
95. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
96. The fourth month of the civil year.
98. A notable achievement.
100. (British) Your grandmother.
101. Usually large hard-shelled seed.
102. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
103. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
104. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An explosive device fused to denote under specific conditions.
2. The sixth month of the civil year.
3. An organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment much changed from that in which it originated.
4. A chronic contagious viral disease marked by inflammation of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eye and the formation of scar tissue.
5. United States chemist (1839-1903).
6. Of or relating to or involving an area.
7. English geologist remembered as the first person to recognize that dinosaurs were reptiles (1790-1852).
8. Kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts.
9. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
10. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
11. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
12. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
13. A line of (usually military) units following one after another.
14. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
15. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
25. Related by blood.
28. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
30. Internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity).
32. A small pouch into which the semicircular canals open.
34. A flat rectangular paper container for papers.
36. A large table centerpiece with branching holders for fruit or sweets or flowers.
39. A fractional monetary unit in Bahrain and Iraq and Jordan and Kuwait and Southern Yemen and Yemen.
40. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
41. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. (Norse mythology) An enormous wolf that was fathered by Loki and that killed Odin.
44. At risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant.
46. An implement used to erase something.
50. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
53. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
55. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
58. Someone who escapes.
59. That is to say.
61. Chief port of Yemen.
66. Tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain.
68. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis.
69. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
71. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
75. A member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley.
77. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
78. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
80. (Greek mythology) The Muse of lyric and love poetry.
81. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
83. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
84. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
85. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
87. An Eskimo hut.
88. A lump of material formed from the content of a liquid.
90. A quantity of no importance.
93. Two-year-old sheep.
94. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
97. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
99. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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