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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock'n'roll music (1925-1981).
9. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
13. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
16. A light touch or stroke.
17. Being of use or service.
18. In bed.
19. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
20. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
22. Patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes.
25. Informal terms for a mother.
26. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
27. A unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter.
31. Indicating the most important performer or role.
32. The act of scanning.
33. Directions for making something.
35. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
37. An acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety.
40. Any plant of the genus Erica.
41. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
44. (British) Your grandmother.
45. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
46. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
47. Stay clear from.
51. Not out.
54. An ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq.
56. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
58. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
60. Metal shackles.
61. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
63. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
64. A sharply directional antenna.
65. Gone by.
66. The descendants of one individual.
69. A port city in southwestern Iran.
72. A diuretic drug (trade name Esidrix and HydroDIURIL) used in the treatment of hypertension.
73. Having the shape of a sphere or ball.
75. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
76. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs.
80. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) Electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line.
83. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high).
88. An unsteady uneven gait.
89. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
91. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
93. The specified day of the month.
94. Extremely pleasing.
95. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
97. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
98. Largest known toad species.
99. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
100. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
101. A university in Connecticut.
102. Immediately past.
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1. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
2. A quantity of no importance.
3. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
5. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
6. A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th.
7. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula.
8. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
9. A great rani.
10. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
11. Having leadership guidance.
12. A public promotion of some product or service.
13. Losing color.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. English monk and scholar (672-735).
21. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
23. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. Prince's plume.
28. Fiddler crabs.
29. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
30. A Mid-Atlantic state.
34. Winter aconite.
36. An informal term for a father.
38. Large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes.
39. A crime that undermines the offender's government.
42. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
43. Report or maintain.
48. Being the only one.
49. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
50. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
52. A shoe with a wedge heel.
53. Of or pertaining to adnexa.
55. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
57. A Loloish language.
59. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
62. A record in which commercial accounts are recorded.
67. Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages.
68. An honorary degree in science.
70. Cause a floating log to rotate by treading.
71. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
72. Losing color.
74. (British) A worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores.
77. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
78. A sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease.
79. Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land.
81. Rounded like an egg.
82. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
84. A form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature.
85. A Russian river.
86. Wife of Ramachandra.
87. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
90. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
92. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
96. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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