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1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
9. A Loloish language.
13. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
18. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
19. Water frozen in the solid state.
20. The residue that remains when something is burned.
21. Declare or acknowledge to be true.
22. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
23. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
24. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
26. Reduction or lack of an immune response to a specific antigen.
27. Statesman who led Northern Rhodesia to full independence as Zambia in 1964 and served as Zambia's first president (born in 1924).
29. A city of southeastern Mexico.
31. A territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine.
33. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
36. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
38. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
42. Of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado n 1.
45. A flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries.
48. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
49. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
50. The sixth month of the civil year.
53. Breed of large wiry-coated terrier bred in Yorkshire.
55. The content of cognition.
56. A desert in southern Israel.
58. Related on the father's side.
59. Moderate or restrain.
60. Relating to or associated with Arabia or its people.
62. A fact that has been verified.
63. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
65. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
66. Suggestive of the supernatural.
67. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. Enduring strength and energy.
75. Of or relating to the heart.
79. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
80. 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).
84. A religious adviser (not necessarily a priest) in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
86. A blind god.
88. Advanced in years.
89. A beautiful and graceful girl.
90. Chipmunks of eastern North America.
93. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
95. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
96. English essayist (1775-1834).
97. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
99. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
100. An informal term for a father.
101. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
102. Make amends for.
103. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Not only so, but.
2. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. The cry made by sheep.
5. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
6. A genus of Lamnidae.
7. To or from every one of two or more (considered individually).
8. A governor of a province in ancient Persia.
9. A vigil before certain feasts (as e.g. Easter).
10. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
11. A dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China.
12. Of or relating to or involving an area.
13. Dignified manner or conduct.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
15. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
25. The grasses.
28. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
32. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
34. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
35. Any fungus of the family Boletaceae.
37. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
39. Large Old World butterflies.
40. Civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army.
41. United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887).
43. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
44. A European river.
46. A cgs unit of work or energy.
47. 100 sente equal 1 loti.
51. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
52. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
54. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
57. Gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas.
61. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
64. The boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
68. 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.
69. Dark sweet or semisweet dessert wine from Sicily.
70. An autocracy governed by two rulers.
71. Of or relating to or involving an area.
73. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
74. Having open interstices or resembling a web.
76. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
77. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
78. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
81. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
85. A three-tone Chadic language.
87. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
91. An engineering university in Cambridge.
92. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
94. Used of a single unit or thing.
98. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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