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1. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
4. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
9. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
13. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
18. Advanced in years.
19. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
20. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
24. The highest level or degree attainable.
25. A resident of Arkansas.
27. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
28. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high).
30. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
32. cause to accept or become hardened to.
33. Absence of light or illumination.
38. A movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing.
41. A small island.
43. A boy or man.
44. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
45. A variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians.
46. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
49. Sacred text of Zoroastrianism.
53. Cause to be more favorably inclined.
55. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
56. (Greek mythology) The priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when they wanted to accept the Trojan Horse.
59. Delicately iridescent thimble-shaped ctenophores.
60. Poisoning by ingestion of ergot-infected grain products.
63. White grape grown in Europe and California.
65. Female ruff v 1.
66. Tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly.
69. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
70. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
71. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
72. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
76. Informal terms for money.
78. English statesman.
81. Bite or chew on with the teeth.
82. Deeply moved.
86. An Eskimo hut.
87. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
90. An authoritative rule.
92. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
93. Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.
96. The airforce of Great Britain.
97. A column of light (as from a beacon).
98. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
99. A submachine gun operated by gas pressure.
100. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
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1. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
2. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
3. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying the primeval sea.
4. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
5. The capital of Western Samoa.
6. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
7. A feeling of anger and animosity.
8. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
9. No longer active or practicing.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
12. A public promotion of some product or service.
13. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
14. The basic unit of money in China.
15. Common black European thrush.
21. (Greek mythology) A tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta.
22. Either extremity of something that has length.
23. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
29. The beginning or early stages.
31. Kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts.
34. A republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula.
35. Uttering in an irritated tone.
36. A cook who uses seasonings.
37. T-shaped cleaning implement with a rubber edge across the top.
39. A young hare especially one in its first year.
40. Take revenge for a perceived wrong.
42. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
47. An intuitive awareness.
48. (usually followed by `to') Full of eagerness.
50. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
51. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
52. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
54. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
57. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
58. Order by virtue of superior authority.
61. Do something to an excessive degree.
62. Cooperative work done by a team.
64. With the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge.
67. A state in northwestern North America.
68. Any shape that is triangular in cross section.
73. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
74. Lessen the intensity of.
75. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
77. An extreme state of adversity.
78. An associate degree in nursing.
79. A city in northern India.
80. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
83. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
84. A major god.
85. An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.
88. A poliovirus vaccine consisting of inactivated polio virus that is injected subcutaneously to provide immunity to poliomyelitis.
89. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
91. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
94. An associate degree in nursing.
95. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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