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1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. Lean end of the neck.
9. English comedienne and mistress of Charles II (1650-1687).
13. The cry made by sheep.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. God of wealth and love.
18. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
19. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
20. Resembling milk in color or cloudiness.
22. Not out.
23. A boat with a flat bottom for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).
26. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
27. The middle portion of the brain.
29. Imprudently incurring risk.
30. Someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding.
32. Noisy talk.
34. Having a sophisticated charm.
36. Providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief.
39. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
42. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
43. A state of southwestern India.
45. Not only so, but.
46. Before noon.
47. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
50. The second largest city in Tunisia.
54. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
55. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
57. The 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
59. Jordan's port.
60. Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox.
62. Covered with paving material.
63. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
64. A natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. The square of a body of any size of type.
68. Argentinian cariama.
70. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
73. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
77. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
80. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
82. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
85. A Nilotic language.
88. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
92. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
93. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
96. Capital of modern Macedonia.
97. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
98. The content of cognition.
99. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
101. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
102. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
103. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
104. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
105. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
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1. Young sheep.
2. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
3. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
4. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
5. A percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer.
6. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
7. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
8. One of a family of granular intrusive rocks.
9. Tallest living quadruped.
10. A sharply directional antenna.
11. (used informally) Very small.
12. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
13. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
14. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
21. The basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the System International d'Unites.
24. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
25. A sovereign prince of the former ruling house of Austria.
28. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
31. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. Bring to light.
37. Hypothyroidism marked by dry skin and swellings around lips and nose as well as mental deterioration.
38. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
40. A New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits.
41. 1 species.
44. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
48. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
49. A doctor's degree in optometry.
51. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
52. An informal term for a father.
53. (Assyrian) God of storms and wind.
56. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
58. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
61. A Portuguese title of respect.
65. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
69. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
71. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
72. Chiefly Old World herbs or shrubs.
73. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
74. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
75. God of love and erotic desire.
76. King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975).
78. A theatrical performer.
79. The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet.
81. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
83. The capital of Western Samoa.
84. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
85. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
86. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
87. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
89. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
90. Slightly open.
91. A Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle.
94. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
95. The first month of the year.
96. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
100. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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