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1. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
4. Beads threaded on a string.
9. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
13. An enclosed space.
16. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
17. The Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life.
18. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
19. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
20. The basic unit of money in Iran.
22. Involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct.
24. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
27. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
28. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
29. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
31. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
34. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
36. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
37. Informal terms for a mother.
40. A quality of refined gracefulness and good taste.
46. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
47. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
50. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
51. Worship given to God alone.
53. Equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged.
54. The brightest star in Virgo.
57. The ending of a series or sequence.
59. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
60. Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell.
62. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
63. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
64. A genus of European owls.
65. An authoritative person who divines the future.
68. American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1731-1814).
70. Lacking excess flesh.
73. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
74. American novelist noted for children's books (1832-1888).
75. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
77. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
80. The amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full.
83. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
87. A human limb.
88. Characterized by variety.
90. Trained in a skill by repetitious practice.
92. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
94. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
96. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
97. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
98. In the Roman calendar.
99. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
100. Failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to.
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1. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
2. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
3. Jordan's port.
4. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
5. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
6. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
7. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
8. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
9. German hero.
10. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
11. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
12. 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.
13. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
14. Someone whose business is advertising.
15. Omnivorous mammal of Central and South America.
21. Immature of its kind.
23. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
30. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
32. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
33. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
35. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
38. Composed of animal fat.
39. Any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Monilia.
41. (prefix) Within.
42. Anything that provides inspiration for later work.
43. (psychology) An urge to accept or approach a situation or an object.
44. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910).
45. Under the influence of a sedative drug.
48. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
49. (Irish) Goddess of fire and fertility and agriculture and household arts and wisdom.
52. Lasting through all time.
55. Of or relating to a clone.
56. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
58. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
61. Having color or a certain color.
66. A small horizontal rope between the shrouds of a sailing ship.
67. Characterized by an inability to mask your feelings.
69. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
71. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
72. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
76. Dwell (archaic).
78. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
79. A primeval personification of air and breath.
81. A public promotion of some product or service.
82. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
83. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
84. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
85. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
86. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
89. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
91. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
93. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
95. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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