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1. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
8. A Loloish language.
12. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
16. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
17. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
18. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
19. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
20. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
21. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
23. Help as a benefactor.
25. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. (Italian cookery) Squid prepared as food.
28. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
29. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
31. A flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces.
35. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
37. A card game for 2 players.
40. Fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather.
44. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine.
47. Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc..
48. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
49. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
52. Make editorial changes (in a text).
53. An arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present.
54. Port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan.
55. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
56. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
58. Guinea fowl.
61. A person who avoids the company or assistance of others.
63. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
64. Half the width of an em.
65. (informal British usage) Aggravation or aggression.
66. Of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization.
67. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
69. A person forced to flee from home or country.
71. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
72. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
73. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
76. Pain in the gums.
80. A building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services.
83. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
84. A farewell remark.
87. Transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are blocked).
88. Type genus of the Nepidae.
91. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
92. A ray of sunlight.
94. Forming or set at an angle.
96. Separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument.
97. Showing deterioration from age.
98. Humble request for help.
100. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
101. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
102. Subject to a ruling authority.
103. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
104. Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again.
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1. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
2. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
3. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
4. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
5. Toward the mouth or oral region.
6. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
7. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
8. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
9. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
10. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
11. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
12. The arrangement of defensive fortifications to protect against enemy fire.
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
15. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. Any plant of the genus Erica.
26. By a small margin.
32. The mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it).
33. Soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
34. Shrubby plant with aromatic grayish-green leaves used as a cooking herb.
36. A genus of Indriidae.
38. The triad of divinities of later Hinduism.
39. Agarics with pink spores but lacking both volva and annulus (includes some that are poisonous).
41. Morning glory.
42. Large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns.
43. A member of a Turkic people of NE Siberia (mainly in the Lena river basin).
45. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
46. Small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs.
50. Having a hemispherical vault or dome.
51. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
57. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
59. Informal terms for a mother.
60. Lasting through all time.
62. Suggestive of the supernatural.
68. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
70. A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks in 479 BC.
74. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
75. An behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual.
77. An associate degree in nursing.
78. Relating to or characteristic of the Celts.
79. All the plant and animal life of a particular region.
81. Forced to turn and face attackers.
82. A rye bread made with molasses or brown sugar.
83. The square of a body of any size of type.
85. Material used to daub walls.
86. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
89. A republic in western South America.
90. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
93. (Sumerian) Sun god.
95. Tag the base runner to get him out.
96. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
99. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
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