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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. A low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water.
9. (British) Colloquial terms for an umbrella.
13. 10 grams.
16. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
17. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
18. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
21. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
22. Hang loosely or laxly.
23. Any of various units of capacity.
24. A member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas.
26. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
28. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
30. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
31. United States chemist (1839-1903).
33. Without moral standards or principles.
35. (Babylonian) The sky god.
37. A unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second.
41. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
42. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
44. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
46. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
47. Chief port of Yemen.
49. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
51. A piece of land held under the feudal system.
53. Common black European thrush.
54. The capital and largest city of the Central Africa Republic.
55. Liquid excretory product.
58. A state in north central United States.
59. Distant in either space or time.
60. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
64. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
65. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
66. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
67. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
68. An honorary arts degree.
71. The part of a ship's equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm.
73. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
75. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
77. Capable of wounding.
79. A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money.
84. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
87. Having winglike extensions.
91. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
93. Made by polymerizing butadiene.
97. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
98. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
99. Sottish sailor who was put ashore on a deserted island off the coast of Chile for five years (providing the basis for Daniel Defoe's novel about Robinson Crusoe) (1676-1721).
100. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
101. A French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750).
102. An abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine.
103. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
2. Type genus of the Amiidae.
3. 3rd largest island in the world.
4. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. A fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed.
7. The capital and largest city of Albania in the center of the country.
8. (biochemistry) Purine base found in DNA and RNA.
9. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
10. Of or at or relating to an anode.
11. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
12. 100 puls equal 1 afghani.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. A French abbot.
15. Offering fun and gaiety.
25. Rebounds readily.
27. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
29. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
32. A vehicle carrying many passengers.
34. British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue transplants and discovered that the rejection of grafts was an immune response (1915-1987).
36. A Christian Bishop who translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic (311-382).
38. Used of a single unit or thing.
39. Dark sweet or semisweet dessert wine from Sicily.
40. English statesman.
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
45. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
48. Order by virtue of superior authority.
50. A brass instrument without valves.
52. 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.
56. Deeply moved.
57. Large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit.
61. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
62. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
63. Set down according to a plan.
69. Veloute or brown sauce with sauteed chopped onion and dry white wine and sour cream.
70. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
72. Informal terms for a mother.
74. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
75. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
76. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
80. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
81. An antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class.
82. A member of the Siouan people of the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
83. Thin and fit.
84. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
85. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
86. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
88. A white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide.
89. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
90. Being three more than fifty.
91. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
92. A quantity of no importance.
94. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
95. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
96. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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