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1. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
4. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
8. Weapons considered collectively.
12. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
16. A tight-fitting headdress.
17. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
18. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
19. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. Any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos often brightly colored.
24. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
25. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
26. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
27. At surface level.
29. Very fertile.
30. The third month of the civil year.
33. Australian clover fern.
35. (genetics) Designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced.
38. The branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies.
42. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
43. Offering fun and gaiety.
46. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
47. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
51. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
52. A genus of small kites of both Old and New Worlds.
54. In a heated manner.
55. A state in New England.
56. Meeting adequate standards for a purpose.
61. (biochemistry) Purine base found in DNA and RNA.
64. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
66. A quantity of no importance.
67. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
68. A battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV of France defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne.
70. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
72. Resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous.
75. Of or relating an apse.
78. A weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphic and plutonic rocks.
80. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
84. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
86. An island in the Mediterranean.
87. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
88. (Hinduism) An ascetic holy man.
90. Jordan's port.
91. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
92. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
96. (British) Your grandmother.
97. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
98. A city in southern Finland.
99. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
100. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
3. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
4. One thousand grams.
5. In accord with the most fashionable ideas or style.
6. A substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I').
7. The fatty flesh of eel.
8. The sixth month of the civil year.
9. A ribbon used as a decoration.
10. An internationally recognized distress signal via radiotelephone (from the French m'aider).
11. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
12. Allow to enter.
13. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
14. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
15. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
21. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Alkeran) used to treat multiple myeloma and some other malignancies.
23. Infectious disease caused by a species of chlamydia bacterium.
28. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
31. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
32. North American rat snakes.
34. Sweet dark purple plum.
36. Robber flies.
37. Having branches.
39. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
40. A Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle.
41. A republic in northeastern South America on the Atlantic.
44. Fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines.
45. Out of bed.
48. An honorary degree in science.
49. Oil palms.
50. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
53. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
57. Being one more than six.
58. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
59. Reveal the true nature of.
60. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
62. A ravine or gully in southern Asia.
63. (Greek mythology) Winged goddess of victory.
65. Having existed from the beginning.
69. Disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals.
70. The sixth month of the civil year.
71. Thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal.
72. Allow to enter.
73. Soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees.
74. Lock up in jail.
76. A beautiful and graceful girl.
77. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
79. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
81. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
85. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
89. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
93. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
94. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
95. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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