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1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. An adult male singer with the lowest voice.
9. Wild goose having white adult plumage.
13. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
18. Made of or covered with wax.
19. A secret agent hired by a state to obtain (military) information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors.
20. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
22. Young of domestic cattle.
23. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
24. The fatty flesh of eel.
25. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
27. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
28. A fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean.
30. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
32. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
34. A loose shirt or tunic.
37. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
39. Fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air.
43. A primeval personification of air and breath.
44. French philosopher and critic.
48. Italian printer who designed the Bodoni font (1740-1813).
49. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
50. At surface level.
51. English monk and scholar (672-735).
52. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
56. A bachelor's degree in library science.
57. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
58. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
59. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
60. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
61. The cry made by sheep.
63. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
64. A public promotion of some product or service.
69. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
70. A state in New England.
71. A republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola.
75. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
79. (British) Your grandmother.
80. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
81. A member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington.
84. Testacean rhizopods.
88. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
90. Of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks.
91. Wool of the alpaca.
92. Diving ducks of North America having a bluish-gray bill.
94. Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931).
95. A city of central China.
96. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
98. English monk and scholar (672-735).
100. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
101. Influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804).
102. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
103. Singing jazz.
104. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
105. One million periods per second.
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1. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
4. A bachelor's degree in religion.
5. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
8. Any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command.
9. A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain.
10. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
11. Go beyond.
12. City in Sudan.
13. One thousandth of a second.
14. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
15. Type genus of the Hylidae.
21. Any of several games played with small rectangular blocks.
26. An associate degree in applied science.
29. (law) Not of legal age.
31. Health care for the aged.
33. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
35. The animal order including amoebas.
36. Intrude in other people's affairs or business.
38. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
40. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
41. (of pitches) Made with the arm moving parallel to the ground.
42. A lever that is operated with the foot.
45. A small stream.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. A city in northern India.
53. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
54. An Anatolian language.
55. A port city in southwestern Iran.
62. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
65. (heraldry) Standing on four feet.
66. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
67. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
68. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
72. Attach a yoke or harness to, as of a draft animal.
73. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
74. Protective garment worn by surgeons during operations.
76. Having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds.
77. The center of an object.
78. United States minimalist painter (born in 1936).
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. Jordan's port.
85. English essayist (1775-1834).
86. (British slang) Cafe.
87. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
89. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
93. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
97. A state in midwestern United States.
99. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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