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1. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
4. An earthen jar (made of baked clay).
9. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. Any of various units of capacity.
16. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
17. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
18. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia.
19. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
20. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
21. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
22. An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War).
23. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
24. An angry disturbance.
26. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. (of sounds) Repeating by reflection.
32. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
34. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
35. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
38. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
42. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
44. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
46. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
47. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and to have pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441).
51. The time period between dawn and noon.
52. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
54. Protozoa characterized by a pseudopod.
55. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
58. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
59. Salt of potassium (trade names Kaochlor and K-lor and Klorvess and K-lyte).
61. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
63. Of or being the lowest female voice.
64. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
66. Informal terms for a mother.
67. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
68. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
69. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
71. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
76. Rhizomatous herb of India having aromatic seeds used as seasoning.
79. (a dated Briticism) A serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced.
81. (medieval Europe) A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord.
83. A small cake leavened with yeast.
86. A public promotion of some product or service.
87. A light touch or stroke.
89. Bourbon with bitters and Pernod and sugar served with lemon peel.
91. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
92. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
94. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
96. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
97. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
98. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
99. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
100. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
101. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. United States physicist (born in Germany) noted for research in astrophysics and nuclear physics (born 1906).
2. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
3. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
4. Of or in or belonging to the cavity of the abdomen.
5. A battle between the French and an alliance of Spaniards and Swiss and Venetians in 1512.
6. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
7. Give over.
8. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
9. A heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
11. Battle in 401 BC when the Persian King Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne.
12. Inquire about.
13. (informal) Exceptionally good.
14. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
15. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
25. The form of ratbite fever occurring in the Far East.
27. Relatively low in price or charging low prices.
29. In or of the month preceding the present one.
31. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
33. European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up.
36. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
37. Control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft.
39. Sightlessness (especially because of a structural defect in or the absence of an eye).
40. A puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across.
41. The position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape.
43. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
45. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
48. Son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil.
49. A native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia.
50. To some (great or small) extent.
53. A deep bow.
56. A state in New England.
57. (informal) Excessive sentimentality.
60. Made or become cool or made cool as specified.
62. Relieve from military service.
65. Claim back.
70. A flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery).
72. Any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables.
73. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
74. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
75. Being nine more than ninety.
77. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
78. Squash bugs.
80. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
82. A small island.
84. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
85. A city in northern India.
88. The cry made by sheep.
90. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
93. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
95. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
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