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1. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
4. A fraudulent business scheme.
8. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
12. A long flag.
16. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
17. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
18. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
19. Type genus of the Apidae.
20. Any seed plant yielding balsam.
22. From that place or from there.
24. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
25. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
27. A performer who dances.
29. The fifth day of the week.
31. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
33. The cry made by sheep.
36. Dry white Italian wine from Verona.
39. Divulge information or secrets.
42. Neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front.
45. An informal term for a father.
46. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
47. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
48. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
50. How long something has existed.
51. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
53. A small island.
57. The closing section of a musical composition.
59. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
61. Industrial city of Belarus southeast of Minsk.
62. An edible tuber native to South America.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Avatar of Vishnu.
66. An allergic reaction that becomes apparent in a sensitized person only minutes after contact.
70. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
72. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
74. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
76. A large fleet.
77. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
78. Headlight that provides strong beam for use in foggy weather.
80. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
83. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
87. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
88. (music) Brought to correct pitch.
91. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
93. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
94. A small piece of cloth.
95. Any plant of the genus Erica.
96. (Roman mythology) God of love.
97. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
98. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
99. The event of dying or departure from life.
100. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
101. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
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1. The superior of an abbey of monks.
2. (sports) Someone in charge of training an athlete or a team.
3. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
4. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
5. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
6. Before noon.
7. New Zealand conifer.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
9. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
10. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
11. (archaic) A fitting reward.
12. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
13. Situated at an apex.
14. Superior to the average.
15. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
21. A clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth.
23. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
26. Unknown god.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
32. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
34. Refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them.
35. Sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors.
37. Under a moral obligation to do something.
38. At or constituting a border or edge.
40. Large siphonophore of up to 50 ft long.
41. A movement back from an impact.
43. Well-seasoned stew of meat and vegetables.
44. A large number or amount.
49. Having a woven pattern.
52. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
54. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
55. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
56. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
58. Earnest or urgent request.
60. Jordan's port.
63. (chemistry) Containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate).
67. A state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal.
68. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
69. General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate.
71. Lock up in jail.
73. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
75. A mountain peak in the Saint Elias Range in the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada (19,850 feet high).
79. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
81. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
82. Informal terms for a mother.
84. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
85. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
86. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
89. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
90. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
92. A strong emotion.
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