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1. A tumor virus transmitted by leafhoppers.
4. A telegram sent abroad.
9. A coarse obnoxious person.
13. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
16. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
17. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen).
18. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
19. Fiddler crabs.
20. Genus of herbs and subshrubs having showy flowers.
22. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
24. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
25. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
26. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
28. A boy or man.
29. A man who courts a woman.
30. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
32. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. (informal) The best of its kind n.
40. Succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers.
45. (British) Diesel oil used in cars and lorries with diesel engines (from d(iesel) e(ngine) r(oad) v(ehicle)).
47. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
48. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
49. Single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission.
51. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
53. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
55. Being a bard or relating to a bard's poetry.
56. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
57. An important question that is in dispute and must be settled.
59. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
60. An early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica.
62. A compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals.
63. A machine or person that adds.
64. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
65. The third day of the week.
66. The sound made by corvine birds.
68. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
71. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
72. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
74. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
77. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
85. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi.
87. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
89. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
90. The sign language used in the United States.
91. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
94. Move out of a curled position.
95. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
96. (Greek mythology) God of love.
97. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
99. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
100. The month following March and preceding May.
101. Make synchronous and adjust in time or manner.
102. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
103. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. The West AFrican language of the Wolof people in Senegal.
2. A cycle with three wheels.
3. Capable of being corrupted.
4. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
5. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
6. A United States youth subculture of the 1950s.
7. Being five more than fifty.
8. Suggestive of the supernatural.
9. Express or utter with a hiss.
10. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
11. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
12. Any of various units of capacity.
13. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
14. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
15. A sudden short attack.
21. Great coolness and composure under strain.
23. Having the skin scraped off.
27. Characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions.
31. A person forced to flee from home or country.
33. Top part of an apron.
35. Avitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1).
36. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
38. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
39. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
41. Dutch Renaissance scholar and Roman Catholic theologian who attacked the theology of Martin Luther (1466-1536).
42. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
46. A state in the eastern United States.
50. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
52. Type genus of the Triglidae.
54. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
58. (used of certain religious orders) Barefoot or wearing only sandals.
61. That is to say.
67. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
69. Comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia.
70. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
71. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
73. Brake consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle.
74. Being one more than fifty.
75. An informal term for a father.
76. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
78. A doctor's degree in optometry.
79. Of or relating to a hair.
80. With eyes full of tears.
81. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
82. Any plant of the genus Inula.
83. Of inferior or mixed breed.
84. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
86. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
87. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
88. Type genus of the Ranidae.
92. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
93. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
98. Not out.
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