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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
9. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
13. A rapid bustling commotion.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
18. Liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned.
19. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
20. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
24. Out of fashion.
25. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
27. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
28. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
30. Coming next after the eleventh and just before the thirteenth in position.
32. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
34. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
36. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
38. Black tropical American cuckoo.
39. A native or inhabitant of Nubia.
42. Transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public.
45. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
48. In an open way.
49. A young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men.
51. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
53. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
56. A plant lacking a permanent woody stem.
57. The month following September and preceding November.
58. United States poet (1884-1933).
59. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
60. In no manner.
63. Small Old and New World herons.
66. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
67. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
71. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
74. A New England state.
76. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
77. Of or relating to the Iberian peninsula or its inhabitants.
80. Genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs.
85. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
88. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
90. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
91. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
92. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
94. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
95. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
96. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
99. A field of cultivated and mowed grass.
101. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
102. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
103. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
104. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
105. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
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1. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
2. Largest known toad species.
3. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
4. A whetstone made of fine gritstone.
5. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
6. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
7. Covered with paving material.
8. A public promotion of some product or service.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly.
11. A member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario.
12. 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.
13. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
14. A style of glazed earthenware.
15. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
21. The provision of something by issuing it (usually in quantity).
22. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
23. (Old Testament) A giant Philistine warrior who David slayed with a slingshot.
26. A mountainous island in eastern Indonesia.
31. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
33. Cock of the rocks.
35. Informal terms for money.
37. A rye bread made with molasses or brown sugar.
40. A job in an organization.
41. A Mid-Atlantic state.
43. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
44. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
46. A traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat.
47. United States writer (born in Lebanon) (1883-1931).
50. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
52. A low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
54. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
55. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
61. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
62. A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells.
64. Avatar of Vishnu.
65. A permanent council of the United Nations.
68. The month following February and preceding April.
69. Relating to or derived from a glacier.
70. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
73. (British) A member of the military police.
74. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
75. Something that is a source of danger.
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
79. Tag the base runner to get him out.
81. (Welsh myth) The other world.
82. Employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words.
83. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
84. Of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times.
86. An elaborate song for solo voice.
87. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
89. A small island.
93. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
94. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
97. An informal term for a father.
98. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
100. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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