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1. A vigorous blow.
5. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
9. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
13. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
16. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
17. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
18. Herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.
19. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
20. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
22. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. A particular environment or walk of life.
26. A drawing intended to explain how something works.
28. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
30. Traveling on horseback.
32. A large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression.
36. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
39. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
40. A soft whitish calcite.
43. A river in eastern France.
44. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
47. Of or relating to or involving an area.
49. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
50. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
52. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
54. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
56. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
57. Made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned.
59. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
62. In a correct manner.
63. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
64. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
66. Not accepting reservations.
67. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
70. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
71. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
73. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
74. Before noon.
75. The face or front of a building.
77. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
78. The widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic.
81. A New England state.
82. Singing jazz.
86. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
90. Noisy talk.
94. An accidental happening.
97. Ground snakes.
99. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
100. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
101. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
103. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
104. How long something has existed.
105. A step in walking or running.
106. A small cake leavened with yeast.
107. Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color.
108. A state in northwestern North America.
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1. A wine bottle made of leather.
2. The sixth month of the civil year.
3. A town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula.
4. A city in southeastern Spain.
5. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
6. Submerged freshwater perennials.
7. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. Lovable especially in a childlike or naive way.
10. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
11. A loud harsh or strident noise.
12. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
13. Husk of a pea.
14. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. Any competition.
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
29. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
31. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
33. Tuberous or rhizomatous perennial herbs.
34. Make legal.
35. Sauce for pasta.
37. A bee that is a a member of the genus Andrena.
38. Sweetened beverage of diluted lemon juice.
41. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
42. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
45. Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916).
46. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
48. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
51. (superlative of `near' or `nigh') Most near.
53. A complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice.
55. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
58. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
60. The act of swimming.
61. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
65. A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables.
68. Suitable for use as food.
69. A radioactive transuranic element.
72. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
76. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
79. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force.
80. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
83. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
84. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
85. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
87. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
88. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
89. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
91. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
92. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
93. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
95. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
96. The cry made by sheep.
98. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
102. Unknown god.
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