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1. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
5. A Bantu language that is one of the two major languages of Zimbabwe.
13. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
17. A university in Connecticut.
18. A port city in northwestern Germany.
19. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
20. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
21. An instrumentality invented for a particular purpose.
22. The highest level or degree attainable.
23. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
24. Having a tail.
26. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
28. Lower in esteem.
30. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
32. An uproarious party.
33. Used of a single unit or thing.
35. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
39. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
41. A soft silvery metallic element.
43. Obvious and dull.
46. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
47. A lizard of the family Agamidae.
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
51. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
56. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
57. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
58. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
60. A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
61. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.
62. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
65. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
67. Of the insects in the chrysalis (cocoon) or post larval stage.
68. (Babylonian) The sky god.
69. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
74. The capital of French Polynesia on the northwestern coast of Tahiti.
76. How long something has existed.
77. Troops trained to fight on horseback.
80. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
83. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
87. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
88. A city in northwestern Syria.
91. A French abbot.
93. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
94. The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.
95. A specific instance of feeling hopeful.
96. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
97. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
98. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
99. Type genus of the Anatidae.
100. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
101. A young woman making her debut into society.
102. A state in northwestern North America.
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1. A major victory by the Romans over the Macedonians in 168 BC.
2. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
3. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
4. (British) Informal term for information.
5. The bill in a restaurant.
6. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
7. A state in midwestern United States.
8. Dutch ophthalmologist who introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity (1834-1908).
9. Small crude shelter used as a dwelling.
10. Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17).
11. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
12. Of or relating to or involving an area.
13. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
14. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
15. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
16. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
25. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
27. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
29. A milk substitute containing soybean flour and water.
31. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
34. A resident of Alabama.
36. An iron-clad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North.
37. Inject into the vein.
38. Someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure.
40. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
42. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
48. (zoology) Relating to frogs and toads.
50. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
53. North American rat snakes.
54. Narrow French stick loaf.
59. Offering fun and gaiety.
63. Transient cessation of respiration.
64. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
66. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
70. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
71. An island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India.
72. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
73. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
75. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
78. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
79. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
81. Fallow deer.
82. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
83. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
84. A sudden short attack.
85. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
86. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
89. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
90. The foot of a human being.
92. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
93. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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