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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. An inhabitant of Lappland.
8. English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723).
12. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
16. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. Suggestive of the supernatural.
19. The provision of money temporarily (usually at interest).
20. A light touch or stroke.
21. A laborer who builds up a stack or pile.
23. Used of locations.
24. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
26. A celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States.
27. Offering fun and gaiety.
28. A decree that prohibits something.
29. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
30. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. 1/1000 gram.
35. A quantity of no importance.
37. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
41. United States poet and critic (1899-1979).
46. 16 ounces.
48. Neither warm or very cold.
49. A native or inhabitant of Turkey.
50. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
53. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
54. A farewell remark.
56. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
58. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
59. Being one more than one hundred.
60. A tight-fitting headdress.
61. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
63. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
65. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
66. (music) Characterized by avoidance of traditional Western tonality.
68. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
69. Being six more than sixty.
70. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
72. Not out.
73. A public promotion of some product or service.
74. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
76. A motley assortment of things.
82. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
83. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
87. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
90. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
92. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
94. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
95. The basic unit of length adopted under the System International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards).
96. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
98. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
99. Seed of a pea plant.
100. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
101. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
102. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
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1. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
2. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. Not victorious.
5. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
6. The protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes.
7. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
8. Occurring every day of the week except Sunday (and sometimes Saturday).
9. Read anew.
10. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
12. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
13. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
14. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
15. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
22. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
25. One of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan.
31. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
33. (zoology) Having a tail or taillike appendage.
36. (of spatial position) In or brought into line with or into proper relative position.
38. A desert in central Asia.
39. A landlocked republic in eastern Europe.
40. The sterilization of an animal.
42. A three-legged rack used for support.
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
45. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
47. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
51. A genus of delicate ferns belonging to the family Osmundaceae.
52. A case for containing a set of articles.
55. Spaced apart.
57. Bearing or marked with a label or tag.
59. A genus of Mustelidae.
62. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
64. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
67. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
71. Makeup that is used to darken and thicken the eye lashes.
72. Occurring every day of the week except Sunday (and sometimes Saturday).
75. Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land.
77. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
78. A bachelor's degree in architecture.
79. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
80. A United States youth subculture of the 1950s.
81. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
84. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
85. A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown.
86. A word or expression used for some particular thing.
88. A slight indication.
89. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
91. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
93. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
97. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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