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1. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
4. Obvious and dull.
9. A person who is under the protection or in the custody of another.
13. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
16. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
17. Excessively fat.
18. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
19. An associate degree in applied science.
20. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
21. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
22. A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters.
23. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
24. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
26. A metallic tapping sound.
28. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
30. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
31. An island in the south Pacific.
32. Affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor.
36. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
39. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
40. (Irish) One of a group of sea demons sometimes associated with the hostile power of nature.
43. A bluish transparent magnetic liquid obtained by compressing gaseous oxygen.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
47. (often used with `pay') A formal expression of esteem.
50. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
52. A collection of Psalms for liturgical use.
53. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
55. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
57. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
58. Light carriage.
62. The type genus of the family Nymphaeaceae.
65. Characteristic of a fluid.
66. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
69. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
70. Before noon.
71. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
72. (botany) Outer tissue of bark.
74. United States poet and critic (1899-1979).
77. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
79. A inexpensive showy collectibles.
81. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
82. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
86. A dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China.
87. English monk and scholar (672-735).
91. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
92. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
93. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
96. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
97. Preferred above all others and treated with partiality.
98. (Babylonian) Consort of Anu.
99. A small cake leavened with yeast.
100. An engineering university in Cambridge.
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1. An aromatic balsam.
2. The sixth month of the civil year.
3. The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).
4. A dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Remaining after all deductions.
7. Out of bed.
8. The process of leaching.
9. Large North American deer with large much-branched antlers.
10. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
11. Highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet.
12. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
13. A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia north of Afghanistan.
14. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
15. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
25. Least expensive statin drug (trade name Lescol).
27. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
29. Refresh one's memory.
33. Tuberous or rhizomatous perennial herbs.
34. A person who acts and gets things done.
35. Upright in position or posture.
37. The verbal act of urging on.
38. A person with the same name as another.
41. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
42. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
46. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
48. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
49. Tiny insectivorous West Indian bird having red-and-green plumage and a long straight bill.
51. Type genus of the Tupaia.
54. A small amount of liquid food.
56. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
59. Move out of a dock.
60. A meet at which riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes.
61. A character set that includes letters.
63. A woman sahib.
64. A blind god.
67. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
68. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
73. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
75. A member of a Turkic people of NE Siberia (mainly in the Lena river basin).
76. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
78. A genus of Pyralidae.
80. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
83. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
84. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
85. Containing or filled with salt.
88. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
89. Lacking in light.
90. Seed of a pea plant.
94. In operation or operational.
95. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
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