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1. A proportion multiplied by 100.
4. Personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task.
9. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
13. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.
16. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
17. Large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood.
18. A French abbot.
19. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
20. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
22. An infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation.
23. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
25. A salt of any halogen acid.
26. Having a pattern of fretwork or latticework.
28. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
29. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
33. God of death.
34. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
35. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
36. Found in warm waters of western Atlantic.
40. A wine bottle made of leather.
43. A member of a North American Indian people of southwestern Oregon.
47. A rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy.
48. A chemical compound containing the azido group combined with an element or radical.
50. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
51. Razor clams.
52. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
54. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
56. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
57. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
61. (informal) Of the highest quality.
62. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
63. A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
65. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance.
67. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
68. Resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible.
70. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
71. Half the width of an em.
73. Make less active or intense.
74. United States film actor known for his portrayals of tough characters (1899-1986).
77. Large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval smooth-skinned fruit.
80. An expression of greeting.
82. (used of certain religious orders) Barefoot or wearing only sandals.
84. Lower in esteem.
87. Any taillike structure.
90. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
91. Only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand.
94. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
95. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
96. Type genus of the Ranidae.
98. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
99. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
100. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
101. The face of a timepiece.
102. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
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1. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
2. A squeaking sound.
3. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
4. A white trivalent metallic element.
5. Set in type.
6. The month following March and preceding May.
7. Not stale or old.
8. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
9. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
10. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
11. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
12. A woman who guided Dante through Paradise in The Divine Comedy.
13. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
14. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
15. Employed in accomplishing something.
21. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
24. Large black gibbon of Sumatra having the 2nd and 3rd toes partially united by a web.
27. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
31. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
32. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
37. Remove from political office.
38. Go with, fall together.
39. Not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society.
41. A chronic disease of the nose characterized by a foul-smelling nasal discharge and atrophy of nasal structures.
42. The capital and largest city of Albania in the center of the country.
44. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
45. From 13 million to 25 million years ago.
46. On or toward the lee.
49. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
53. Mostly black African weaverbird.
55. Convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid.
58. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
59. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
60. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
64. The mints.
66. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
69. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
72. A member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington.
75. Of or belonging to an aecium.
76. Of or relating to the nervous system.
77. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
78. Administer an oil or ointment to.
79. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
81. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
83. A prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor.
85. A small cake leavened with yeast.
86. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
87. Before noon.
88. An informal term for a father.
89. Causing a dull and steady pain.
92. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
93. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
94. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.
97. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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