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1. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
4. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
9. Offering fun and gaiety.
13. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
16. The month following March and preceding May.
17. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
18. Using speech rather than writing.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. The cry made by sheep.
21. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
23. Austrian composer (1860-1911).
25. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
27. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
29. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
31. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
32. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
35. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
36. French novelist and critic.
40. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
41. Of or relating to a septum.
44. New Zealand conifer.
46. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
47. Any plant of the genus Erica.
48. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
49. Take in solid food.
50. An informal term for a father.
53. A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck.
54. (formerly) A writing tablet made of slate.
57. The site of an archeological exploration.
58. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
61. Having prongs or tines.
62. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
64. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
65. Being one more than fifty.
66. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
67. A state in north central United States.
68. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
72. English writer of historical romances (1803-1873).
75. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
76. A quantity of no importance.
77. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
79. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
81. How long something has existed.
86. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
90. Having three dimensions.
91. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
93. Any competition.
94. Step on it.
95. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
97. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
99. Make amends for.
100. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
101. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
102. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
103. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
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1. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. (informal) Exceptionally good.
4. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. (used of the moon) More than half full.
7. A purgative made from the leaves of aloe.
8. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying the primeval sea.
9. A state of southwestern India.
10. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
11. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. Tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall.
14. American novelist (1909-1955).
15. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
22. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
24. A native American chieftain who argued for peace with the European settlers (16th century).
26. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
28. Indigo bush.
30. Being derived from.
33. The quality of being ideal.
34. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
37. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
38. Put in or stored in a barrel.
39. Used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles.
42. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
43. Very sad.
45. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
51. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
52. (formal) A person who announces important news.
55. Protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants.
56. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
59. A small cake leavened with yeast.
60. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
63. A dicotyledonous genus of the family Ericaceae.
69. 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).
70. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
71. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
73. An ancient Greek city in Boeotia destroyed by Alexander the Great in 336 BC.
74. A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic.
78. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
80. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
82. Antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns.
83. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
84. A thrusting blow with a knife.
85. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
86. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
87. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
88. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
89. A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
92. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
96. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
97. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
98. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
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