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1. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
4. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
8. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
12. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. The capital of Western Samoa.
18. A Loloish language.
19. Any competition.
20. An argument opposed to a proposal.
21. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
23. Terrestrial game birds of the Old World and Australia.
24. Largest crested screamer.
26. The act of hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly.
28. A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality.
29. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
30. A state in north central United States.
31. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
38. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
41. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
45. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
47. Love unquestioningly and uncritically.
49. New Zealand conifer.
52. Advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status.
53. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
54. Having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat.
55. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
56. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
58. An accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing.
60. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
61. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
64. The academic world.
65. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
68. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
69. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
70. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
71. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
73. Jordan's port.
75. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
76. (Greek mythology) An Athenian inventor who built the Labyrinth of Minos.
79. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
82. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
85. The form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation.
87. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
91. At or constituting a border or edge.
94. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
96. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
97. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
99. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
100. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
101. Black tropical American cuckoo.
102. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
103. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
104. Of or being the lowest female voice.
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1. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
2. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
3. The capital of Bahrain.
4. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
5. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
6. A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th.
7. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
8. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
9. One who works hard at boring tasks.
10. An associate degree in nursing.
11. A picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene.
12. A correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment.
13. A housing for a radar antenna.
14. Sour or bitter in taste.
15. Protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants.
22. Fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals.
25. German mathematician (1804-1851).
27. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
32. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
34. (informal) Roused to anger.
35. Very dark black.
36. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
39. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
40. Any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit.
42. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
43. Genus of Mediterranean thistles.
44. French poet whose work influenced the surrealists (1854-1891).
46. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
48. Water frozen in the solid state.
50. Having awns i.e. bristle- or hair-like appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses.
51. Covered with paving material.
57. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
59. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
62. Twist or braid together, interlace.
63. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
66. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
67. A kind of mantis shrimp.
68. One who works hard at boring tasks.
72. A public promotion of some product or service.
74. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
77. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
78. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
80. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
81. Russian country house.
82. Informal terms for a human head.
83. Chief port of Yemen.
84. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
86. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
87. Avatar of Vishnu.
88. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
89. Fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers.
90. (prefix) Within.
92. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
93. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
95. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
98. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
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