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1. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
4. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
9. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
13. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
16. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
17. A military trainee (as at a military academy).
18. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
19. The facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition.
20. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
21. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn.
23. The square of a body of any size of type.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
27. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
28. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
29. Act in a way that attracts attention.
31. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
36. Being one more than two.
37. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
38. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
44. Small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color.
47. A river in the east central United States.
49. Make anew.
50. A speaker who lisps.
51. Type genus of the family Lepadidae.
52. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
53. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
57. Growing old.
59. A bachelor's degree in science.
60. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
62. (British) Your grandmother.
63. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
67. An elaborate song for solo voice.
68. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
71. A white trivalent metallic element.
72. Marked by blithe unconcern.
73. A resource.
76. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
77. Any movable possession (especially articles of clothing).
80. Squash bugs.
83. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
85. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
89. The face or front of a building.
91. English inventor who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877).
93. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
94. God of fire.
95. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
97. On or toward the lee.
98. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
99. English historian noted for his works on the history of English law (1850-1906).
100. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A chock or bar wedged under a wheel or between the spokes to prevent a vehicle from rolling down an incline.
2. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
3. Of or relating to punishment.
4. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
5. Wearing or provided with clothing.
6. The third canonical hour.
7. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
8. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
9. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
10. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
11. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
12. An account of the author's personal experiences.
13. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
14. A desert in central Asia.
15. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
22. (Greek mythology) One of the 7 Pleiades.
26. A pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper.
30. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
32. Clarified butter used in Indian cookery.
34. God of the winds in ancient mythology.
39. Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal.
40. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
41. (Greek mythology) A wise old counselor to the Greeks at Troy.
42. Consider as ideal.
43. The part of a coal seam that is being cut.
45. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
46. Two names for the suborder of typical songbirds.
48. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
54. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
55. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
56. Distant in either space or time.
58. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
61. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
64. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
65. (archaic) Powerful.
66. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
69. Sail faster or better than.
70. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
71. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
74. A family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States.
75. A decree that prohibits something.
78. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
79. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
80. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
81. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
82. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
84. The twelfth month of the civil year.
86. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
87. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
88. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
90. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
92. A doctor's degree in theology.
93. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
96. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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