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1. A transuranic element.
4. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
8. Slightly open.
12. A major god.
16. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
17. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. A member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
22. A native of ancient Troy.
24. Not one of the first three in a race or competition.
26. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
28. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
29. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
31. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
33. Unrestrained by convention or propriety.
36. Jordan's port.
38. A conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers.
42. 1 species.
46. (Roman mythology) God of love.
47. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
48. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
49. French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960).
51. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
53. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
54. (Russian Jewish) Baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese.
55. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
56. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
60. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
61. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
63. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
65. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
66. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
68. Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood.
71. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
72. An Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374).
75. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
76. Protected from heat and light with shade or shadow.
78. Load anew with ammunition, "She reloaded the gun carefully".
79. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
81. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
82. Class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land.
84. Leopard lizards.
89. Horned vipers.
90. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
92. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
93. An informal term for a father.
94. Time during which some action is awaited.
98. Of inferior or mixed breed.
99. United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967).
100. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
101. Type genus of the Anatidae.
102. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
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1. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
2. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
3. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
4. Armor plate that protects legs below the knee.
5. A can with a long nozzle to apply oil to machinery.
6. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
7. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
10. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
11. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
12. Of or relating to ground water.
13. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
14. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
15. Located at or near the back of an animal.
23. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
25. The person who Jesus raised from the dead after four days in the tomb.
27. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
30. A great raja.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. Write in the latin alphabet.
35. Inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects.
37. God of love and erotic desire.
39. (Christianity) Saved from the bondage of sin.
40. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
41. Marked by extreme anger.
43. Singing jazz.
44. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
45. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
50. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
52. The act of separating grain from chaff.
57. A master's degree in fine arts.
58. (football) Of advancing the ball by throwing it.
59. Mixed or impregnated with borax.
62. A city in northeastern Ohio.
64. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
67. A Christian recluse.
68. Armor plate that protects legs below the knee.
69. Mites and ticks.
70. Small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests.
73. Relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator).
74. By bad luck.
77. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
80. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
83. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
85. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
86. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
87. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
88. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
91. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
95. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
96. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
97. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
98. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
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