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1. An informal term for a father.
4. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.
9. A French abbot.
13. (informal) Roused to anger.
16. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
17. (microbiology) An infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid.
18. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. (Babylonian) The sky god.
21. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
23. Of an instrument of certain death.
25. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. Before noon.
31. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
33. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
34. The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.
38. A mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text.
42. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
45. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
46. Possessing life.
47. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
51. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
52. An edict of the Russian tsar.
53. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
54. An associate degree in nursing.
55. Former measure of the US economy.
56. The momentary present.
59. French tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699).
62. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
64. Formed or gathered into a ball.
65. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and a progestin compound.
66. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
68. (Irish) The sea personified.
69. A white trivalent metallic element.
70. A Russian river.
74. Lower in esteem.
76. Jordan's port.
80. Marked or dyed or discolored with foreign matter.
83. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
86. Slightly wet.
89. Perversely irritable.
91. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
93. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
94. Automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system.
95. Related on the mother's side.
97. God of love and erotic desire.
98. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
99. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
100. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
101. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
102. An associate degree in applied science.
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1. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
2. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
3. Material used to daub walls.
4. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
5. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
6. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
7. Financially secure and safe.
8. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
9. A member of the North American Indian people of the Pit river valley in northern California.
10. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
11. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
12. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
13. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
14. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
15. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
22. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
24. (Mexican) Corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed.
26. An alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy.
28. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
32. The act of using.
35. Fiddler crabs.
36. A region of Malaysia on northwestern Borneo.
37. Taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals.
39. A colt with undescended testicles.
40. A quality of uniformity and lack of variation.
41. (Brit) UK decimal coin worth ten pennies.
43. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
44. A compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed.
48. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
49. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
50. Register formally.
57. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
58. A doctor's degree in education.
60. (zoology) Pertaining to or characteristic of birds.
61. Held back from some action especially by force.
63. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
67. A master's degree in business.
71. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
72. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
73. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
74. By bad luck.
75. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
76. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
77. British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956).
78. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
79. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
81. A discussion intended to produce an agreement.
82. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
84. A list of dishes available at a restaurant.
85. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
87. 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.
88. Either of two large muscles of the chest.
90. Call upon in supplication.
92. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
96. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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