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1. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
4. (Old Testament) The Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea on a journey known as the Exodus.
9. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
13. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
16. A rapid bustling commotion.
17. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
18. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
19. A doctor's degree in education.
20. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
22. A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
24. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
25. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
26. A book of the New Testament.
27. A group of mostly extinct primitive bony fishes characterized by armor-like bony scales.
30. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
32. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
33. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
35. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
37. Commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison.
41. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
43. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
48. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
49. A populous province in northeastern China.
52. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high).
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
54. (British) A disparaging term for an appointee.
56. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
57. A boat with a flat bottom for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).
60. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
61. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
62. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
63. United States film actor (born in Hungary) noted for portraying monsters (1884-1956).
65. A unit of pain intensity.
68. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
69. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.
74. (biology) Shed at an early stage of development.
75. A slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels.
76. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
77. Mix or blend.
78. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
80. A fraudulent business scheme.
83. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
85. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
89. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
93. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
94. Have legs that curve outward at the knees.
95. A French abbot.
97. The products of human creativity.
98. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
99. An alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon.
100. A small cake leavened with yeast.
101. Step on it.
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1. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
2. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
3. Of or relating to the aorta.
4. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
5. A doctor's degree in optometry.
6. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
7. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
8. A simple seat without a back or arms.
9. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
10. American novelist (1909-1955).
11. Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium.
12. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
13. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
14. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
15. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
21. Having an oblique or slanted direction.
23. (of a cartridge) Fired by striking the rim of the base.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
31. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
36. A doctor's degree in religion.
38. East Asian perennial herbs.
39. Of or relating to or characteristic of Athens or its inhabitants.
40. Rod-shaped gram-negative enterobacteria.
42. A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
44. Made of fir or pine.
45. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
46. Moving quickly and lightly.
47. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
50. Someone who operates a barge.
51. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
55. Tag the base runner to get him out.
58. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
59. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
64. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
66. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
67. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
70. Beautiful daughter of Minos and Pasiphae.
71. Trade name for an antihypertensive drug containing hydrochlorothiazide and another diuretic.
72. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust.
73. (Greek mythology) A maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. 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.
81. 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.
82. An elaborate song for solo voice.
84. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
86. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
87. Little known Kamarupan languages.
88. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
90. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
91. Take in solid food.
92. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
96. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
97. Being one more than fifty.
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