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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
13. Inflammation of the female pelvic organs (especially the Fallopian tubes) caused by infection by any of several microorganisms (chiefly gonococci and chlamydia).
16. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
17. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
18. A recognizable kind.
19. A rapid bustling commotion.
20. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
21. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
23. A sedative and tranquilizer (trade name Miltown and Equanil and Meprin) used to treat muscle tension and anxiety.
25. United States sculptor (born in 1924).
27. An innocuous or inert medication.
29. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
30. The capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river.
32. Elder brother of Krishna.
34. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
35. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
37. An informal term for a father.
41. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
44. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
45. Of a pale purple color.
47. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
48. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
50. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
52. A state in midwestern United States.
53. A state in east central United States.
54. Evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides.
59. A member of a North American Indian people living on the California coast near Monterey.
60. Small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle.
64. (KNO3) Used especially as a fertilizer and explosive.
65. A deep bow.
68. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
69. A strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide.
71. 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).
73. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
75. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
76. Cry plaintively.
78. (informal) Of the highest quality.
83. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
86. Being five more than one hundred seventy.
87. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
89. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
90. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
91. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
93. In addition.
96. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
97. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
98. Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end.
99. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
100. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it.
2. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
3. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
4. A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Vela.
5. A state of southwestern India.
6. Small depression under the shoulder joint where the arm joins the shoulder.
7. The food served and eaten at one time.
8. A loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion.
9. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
10. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
11. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
12. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
13. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
14. A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language.
15. An Italian woman of rank.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. Multicellular organisms having less-specialized cells than in the Metazoa.
26. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
28. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
31. An early Christian ascetic who lived on top of high pillars.
33. A region in southeastern Italy on the Adriatic.
36. Beyond what is natural.
38. Failure of some tissue or organ to develop.
39. Choose to refrain.
40. One of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread.
42. United States dancer and cinema actor noted for his original and graceful tap dancing (1899-1987).
43. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
46. Metal shackles.
49. United States choreographer noted for his use of African elements (born in 1931).
51. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
55. Common black European thrush.
56. A small island.
57. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
58. The cry made by sheep.
61. A genus of Caltha.
62. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
63. A medium for oil-paints.
66. Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic.
67. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
70. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
72. The superior of a group of nuns.
73. 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.
74. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
77. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
79. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
80. Morally bad or wrong.
81. Produced by a manufacturing process.
82. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
84. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
85. God of love and erotic desire.
88. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
92. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
94. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
95. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
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