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1. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
4. Lower in esteem.
9. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
13. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
16. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
17. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
18. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
19. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
20. Take in solid food.
21. Having winglike extensions.
23. An elaborate representation of scenes from history etc.
25. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
30. A thin strip (wood or metal).
31. Rheumatic or myalgic pains in the arms or legs.
33. Beat with a cane.
35. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
36. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
37. (psychology) An urge to accept or approach a situation or an object.
40. Leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (1897-1975).
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
48. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
49. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
51. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
52. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
53. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
54. A program that is broadcast again.
56. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
60. (Sumerian) Sun god.
61. The content of cognition.
63. Belonging to some prior time.
66. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
68. A Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer.
69. English essayist (1775-1834).
70. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
71. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
74. A shoe for swimming.
75. A public promotion of some product or service.
76. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
78. A coffin along with its stand.
81. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
83. A person who evokes boredom.
84. In a state of sleep.
87. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
90. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
93. Neither moral nor immoral.
95. Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments.
98. The products of human creativity.
99. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
101. A branch of the Tai languages.
102. A master's degree in business.
103. Towards the side away from the wind.
104. Silkworm moths.
105. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
106. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
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1. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
2. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
3. Part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. Elder brother of Krishna.
6. Jordan's port.
7. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
8. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
9. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
10. Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet.
11. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
12. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
13. (mathematics) Of a triangle having three sides of different lengths.
14. The goddess of the moon.
15. Rectangular paving stone with curved top.
22. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
24. The condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded).
26. A mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high).
29. The square of a body of any size of type.
32. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
34. Move unobtrusively or furtively.
38. (used of persons) Informal intensifiers.
39. Submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts.
41. Either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder.
42. Type genus of the family Hirudinidae.
43. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
44. Fallow deer.
46. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
50. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
55. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
57. A blind god.
58. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
59. A town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River.
62. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
64. A musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it.
65. Earlier in time.
67. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
72. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
73. A member of a North American Indian people of southwestern Oregon.
77. The capital of the state of Kansas.
79. A river in southeastern France.
80. Wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography.
82. A member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas.
85. (Greek mythology) God of love.
86. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
87. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
88. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
89. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
90. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
91. A small cake leavened with yeast.
92. South African term for `boss'.
94. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
96. A police officer who investigates crimes.
97. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
100. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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