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1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. Large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood.
9. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
13. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. Small crude shelter used as a dwelling.
18. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
19. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
20. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
21. Jordan's port.
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
24. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
26. The brother of your father or mother.
29. Trousers ending above the knee.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
33. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
36. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
37. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
40. The first month of the Islamic calendar.
43. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
47. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
49. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
53. A Scottish word.
54. A slight amount or degree of difference.
55. Fallow deer.
56. Before noon.
58. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
60. A nation in northern North America.
62. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
63. A curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle.
66. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
67. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
70. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
73. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
75. The eleventh month of the civil year.
79. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
83. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
86. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
88. A state of high honor.
89. King of the Huns.
91. The superior of a group of nuns.
93. Using speech rather than writing.
94. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
95. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
97. A Loloish language.
98. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
99. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
100. Not only so, but.
101. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
102. (Scottish) A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains).
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1. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
2. An extreme state of adversity.
3. An ordered reference standard.
4. Occurring or appearing or singled out by chance.
5. Port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan.
6. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
7. A puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words.
8. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
10. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
11. Fiddler crabs.
12. An informal term for a father.
13. The process of gradually becoming inferior.
14. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
15. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
25. Personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians.
27. United States poet and critic (1916-1986).
28. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
31. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
34. A native of ancient Troy.
35. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
38. The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
39. Advanced in years.
41. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
42. Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages.
44. A fighter who batters the opponent.
45. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
46. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
48. That is to say.
52. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
57. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
59. Large Indian antelope.
61. Characterized by friendship and good will.
64. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
65. Being ten more than eighty.
68. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
69. Lasting through all time.
70. The process of gradually becoming inferior.
71. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
72. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
74. A flexible container with a single opening.
76. Urgently needed.
77. Hunt illegally.
78. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
80. Relating to principles of right and wrong.
81. Talk pompously.
82. A thermoplastic polyamide.
84. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
85. Supply or feed to surfeit.
87. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
90. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
92. A typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system.
96. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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