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1. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
5. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
9. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
13. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
16. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
17. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
18. Two items of the same kind.
19. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
20. A member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California.
22. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
25. Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers.
26. Congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters).
28. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
29. Unpleasantly loud and harsh.
30. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
32. A long-handled oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward.
35. An audiotape recording of sound.
37. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
40. Of or relating to or supporting Romanism.
44. Before noon.
45. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
46. Marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids.
51. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
53. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
54. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
55. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
56. Run away secretly with one's beloved.
58. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
61. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
62. Render verbally, "recite a poem".
64. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
66. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
67. A state in midwestern United States.
68. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
70. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
71. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
72. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
75. British informal term.
76. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
77. Relating to or included in the zodiac.
83. A collection of excerpts from a literary work.
89. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
90. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
92. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
93. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
94. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
96. Hit hard.
97. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
98. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
99. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
100. A quantity of no importance.
101. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
2. By bad luck.
3. Anything that serves as an enticement.
4. Be or form the base for.
5. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
6. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
7. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
8. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
9. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
10. An ancient region on the coast of southwest Asia Minor.
11. (Hinduism) Term of respect for a Brahmin sage.
12. A state in north central United States.
13. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
14. The eighth month of the civil year.
15. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
21. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
23. Artificial and inferior.
24. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
27. The audible part of a transmitted signal.
31. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
33. Of or relating to the cochlea of the ear.
34. Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment.
36. Of or relating to the chest or thorax.
38. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
39. Spoken with emphasis.
41. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
42. A traditional story accepted as history.
43. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
47. An unforeseen obstacle.
48. Standard temperature and pressure.
49. An army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions.
50. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
52. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
57. A framework that supports climbing plants.
59. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
60. Of or relating to the kidneys.
63. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
65. The visual percept of a region.
69. Singing jazz.
73. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
74. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries.
78. The formation of frost or ice on a surface.
79. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
80. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
81. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
82. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
84. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
85. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
86. A hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward.
87. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
88. An informal term for a father.
91. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
95. Being one more than one hundred.
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