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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
9. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
18. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
19. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
20. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
21. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa).
23. A mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving.
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. Give pleasure to.
29. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.
32. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
34. A tributary of the Missouri River.
37. A light touch or stroke.
40. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
43. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
45. (nontechnical usage) A tiny piece of anything.
46. A streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine.
51. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
52. A member of an ancient people living east of Babylonia as early as 4000 BC.
53. Type genus of Cycadaceae.
54. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
56. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
58. Considerate and solicitous care.
59. Elegant and stylish.
61. Tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail.
63. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
64. (informal) Of the highest quality.
66. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
68. One appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions.
74. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
75. German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859).
79. A person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure.
81. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
82. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
86. The time of day immediately following sunset.
87. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
89. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
91. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
92. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
95. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
97. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
98. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
99. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
100. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
101. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
102. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. Elongate very slender water scorpions.
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
6. An athlete who competes at jumping.
7. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
8. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
9. By bad luck.
10. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
11. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
12. (Hinduism or Buddhism) A sacred word or syllable repeated in prayer or meditation.
13. United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (born in 1905).
14. A small cut of meat including part of a rib.
15. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
22. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
24. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
26. A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together.
28. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
30. Distributed or sold illicitly.
31. A support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute).
33. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
35. The property of being isotropic.
36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
38. Of or relating to or containing basalt.
39. Resembling the new moon in shape.
41. Of or pertaining to or written in Altaic.
42. A smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked.
44. A sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule.
47. First in order of importance.
48. Give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role.
49. A caustic substance (Ca(OH)2) produced by heating limestone.
50. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
55. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
57. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
60. Move out of a dock.
62. A genus of fish in the family Caproidae.
65. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
67. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
69. The seventh month of the civil year.
70. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
71. A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma).
72. An elaborate party (often outdoors).
73. A state in northwestern North America.
76. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
77. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
78. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
80. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
83. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
84. Any competition.
85. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
88. A resource.
90. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
91. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
93. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
94. 1/1000 gram.
96. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
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