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1. A polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables.
4. A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.
9. A boy or man.
13. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
16. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
17. A West African language closely related to Fula.
18. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
19. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
20. The sign language used in the United States.
21. The French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec.
23. A covered passageway.
25. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
28. Being nine more than ninety.
29. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
31. Any of the openings to the nasal cavities that allow air to flow through the cavities to the pharynx.
32. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
33. A member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers.
35. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
36. (archaic) Utterly cast down.
38. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
39. Kindly endorsement and guidance.
40. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
41. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
42. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
44. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
48. A member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built.
50. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
53. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
54. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
57. The money risked on a gamble.
58. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
62. Contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.
64. A city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva.
65. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
66. A nonstandard form of American English spoken by some American Black people.
68. A loud harsh or strident noise.
69. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
70. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
73. A farewell remark.
74. A state in New England.
77. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
81. A large number of things or people considered together.
84. A genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers.
87. (South African) A journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers).
88. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
90. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
92. A city in northern India.
93. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
94. Urged social reform in 19th century England.
96. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
97. Made of fir or pine.
98. God of death.
99. An informal term for a father.
100. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A major god.
2. An endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it v 1.
3. Made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned.
4. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
5. One-thousandth of an equivalent.
6. An injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration.
7. Echo repeatedly, echo again and again.
8. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
9. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
10. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
13. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
14. A song that was formerly popular.
15. Give a benediction to.
22. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
24. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
26. A person from whom you are descended.
27. Stern foremost or backward.
30. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
34. City in central Iran.
37. One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada.
43. (of securities) Bought and sold on a stock exchange.
45. Ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage.
46. A plaything that is ridden up and down by children at either end.
47. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
49. Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal).
51. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
52. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
55. Type genus of the Gavidae.
56. A nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal.
59. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
60. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
61. A member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico.
63. (botany) Divided into two lobes.
67. Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
68. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
71. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
72. A tumor consisting of fatty tissue.
75. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
76. An associate degree in applied science.
78. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. Jordan's port.
82. A feeling of intense anger.
83. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
85. Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness.
86. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
89. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
90. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
91. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
95. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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