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1. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
4. A prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own.
9. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
13. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
16. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
17. Covered with water.
18. An equal exchange.
19. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
20. A periodic paperback publication.
21. An occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants.
23. The essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized.
25. (British and Australian) A cheap wine of inferior quality.
27. English writer (born in Scotland) of children's stories (1859-1932).
29. Toward the mouth or oral region.
30. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
32. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
33. Posing no difficulty.
34. Feel admiration for.
36. Existing only in the mind.
39. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
40. A fortified military post where troops are stationed.
42. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
43. Blatant or sensational promotion.
47. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
49. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.
52. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
54. Someone who cooks food.
56. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
57. Female equine animal.
58. A victory cheer.
62. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
63. Of an angle.
64. The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
65. Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk.
67. French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827).
69. Crowd or pack to capacity.
70. Acting through or dependent on an intervening agency.
72. A native American tent.
73. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
74. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
75. A cloth having a crisscross design.
78. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
84. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
87. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
90. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
92. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
93. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
94. Club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron.
95. Tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood.
96. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
97. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
98. Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
99. Type and only genus of the family Esocidae.
100. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
101. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
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1. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. A unit of resistance equal to one million ohms.
4. Scenery hung at back of stage.
5. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
6. An association of criminals.
7. Deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America.
8. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
9. (Phoenician) A fertility goddess.
10. The compass point midway between north and west.
11. Medium tall celery pine of New Zealand.
12. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
13. Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
14. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
15. Full of seeds.
22. A member of the Indian people of northern California and southern Oregon.
24. Tall grass of New Zealand grown for plumelike flower heads.
26. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
28. The month following February and preceding April.
31. A village in Jordan near the north end of the Dead Sea.
35. That can be given a date.
37. Financially ruined.
38. Transparent anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye.
41. Characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need.
44. Involving two dimensions.
45. Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness.
46. Ridge-like ingrowth of the exoskeleton of an arthropod that supports internal organs and provides attachment points for muscles.
48. An amount of time.
50. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
51. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
53. Look down on with disdain.
55. Relatively low in price or charging low prices.
59. In a state of sleep.
60. A simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines).
61. A purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens.
66. An enclosed space.
68. A faint constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cassiopeia and the Pole Star.
69. Medium tall celery pine of New Zealand.
71. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
76. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
77. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
78. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
79. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
80. Anything that serves as an enticement.
81. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
82. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.
83. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
85. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
86. God of love and erotic desire.
88. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
89. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
91. Gone by.
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