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1. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
9. Tasting sour like a lemon.
13. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
16. A city in northern India.
17. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
18. A slender double-reed instrument.
19. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
22. (of a bed) Not having the sheets and blankets set in order.
24. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
25. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
26. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
28. In truth (often tends to intensify).
30. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
32. An island of central Hawaii.
34. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
39. A socially awkward or tactless act.
43. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
46. (computer science) A read-only memory chip that can be erased by ultraviolet light and programmed again with new data.
47. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
48. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
49. A person who rules or commands.
51. A fastener for a door or lid.
52. Goddess of fertility.
54. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
56. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
57. (in India and Burma) Robbery by a gang of armed dacoits.
59. A long pointed rod used as a weapon.
61. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
64. Typical geese.
65. A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).
66. Relating to the veins of plants.
67. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
68. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
69. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
71. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
72. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
73. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
75. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
79. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
81. Any taillike structure.
88. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
91. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
92. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
95. Twist or braid together, interlace.
97. The month following January and preceding March.
98. A purgative made from the leaves of aloe.
99. Fallow deer.
101. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
102. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
103. (British) A local tax on property (usually used in the plural).
104. The sixth month of the civil year.
105. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
106. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
4. The capital city of the Chinese province of Gansu on the Yellow River.
5. A resource.
6. (informal) Exceptionally good.
7. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
8. Short and fat.
9. Edible greenish substance in boiled lobster.
10. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. French sculptor noted for his renderings of the human form (1840-1917).
12. Being of the age 13 through 19.
13. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
14. Something causes misery or death.
15. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
27. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
29. A foghorn that makes a signal consisting of two tones.
33. Breed of large wiry-coated terrier bred in Yorkshire.
35. Generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue.
36. The harvesting of hay.
37. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
38. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
40. A ruff for the neck worn in the 16th century.
41. Encouraged or promoted in growth or development.
42. Of or relating to the sky or heavens.
44. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
45. A Hindu religious teacher.
50. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
53. Treated with contempt.
55. Of or relating to or characteristic of Java or its inhabitants.
58. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
60. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
70. A sharp projection on an edge or surface.
74. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
76. Basic principles of the cosmos.
77. The tissue forming the hard outer layer of e.g. a fruit.
78. Monoamine oxidase inhibitor (trade name Nardil) used to treat clinical depression.
79. Used of a single unit or thing.
80. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
82. In bed.
83. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
84. A tight cluster of people or things.
85. Occurring widely (as to many people).
86. 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.
87. An informal term for a father.
89. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
90. A written proposal or reminder.
93. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
94. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
96. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
100. A public promotion of some product or service.
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