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1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
9. Flat tableland with steep edges.
13. A person active in party politics.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. Incapable of or resistant to bending.
18. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
19. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
20. The residue that remains when something is burned.
21. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
22. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
23. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
24. A large number or amount.
26. A city in southern California (southeast of Los Angeles).
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. An electrically charged particle.
31. Make less active or intense.
34. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
38. Wish harm upon.
39. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
44. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
46. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
48. An account describing incidents or events.
52. The closing section of a musical composition.
53. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
55. A town in southwestern Idaho.
58. Negation of a word or group of words.
59. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
60. Coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position.
61. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
62. Relatively large in size or number or extent.
64. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
66. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
67. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
69. A city in northern India.
71. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
72. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
75. A Russian river.
77. (informal) Exceptionally good.
80. An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon.
85. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
88. Minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts.
89. Obvious and dull.
91. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
92. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
95. Any small compartment.
97. (informal) Roused to anger.
98. (linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed.
99. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
100. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
101. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Not only so, but.
2. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
5. God of the underworld.
6. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
7. A mechanically operated piano that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys.
8. Someone whose business is advertising.
9. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
10. New Guinea echidnas.
11. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
12. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
13. Music performed for dancing the polka.
14. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
15. A genus of Lamnidae.
25. Of flowers.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. Before noon.
32. To work at or to absurd length.
33. Flatter in an obsequious manner.
35. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
36. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
37. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
40. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
41. An incompetent person.
42. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
43. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
45. A bachelor's degree in science.
47. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
49. Used of a single unit or thing.
50. The larva of an ant lion or of any of several other insects.
51. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
54. Capable of being acted.
56. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
57. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
63. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
64. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
65. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
68. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
70. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
73. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
74. English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940).
76. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
78. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
79. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
80. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
81. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
82. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
83. Belonging to some prior time.
84. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
86. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
87. An informal term for a father.
90. A three-year law degree.
93. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
94. 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.
96. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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