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1. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
4. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
9. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
13. The month following April and preceding June.
16. Informal terms for the mouth.
17. A river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg.
18. A primeval personification of air and breath.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. A baby from birth to four weeks.
23. A B vitamin essential for the normal function of the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract.
25. Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers.
27. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
29. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
30. Mexican revolutionary who led a revolt for agrarian reforms (1879-1919).
32. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt.
34. A climber of vertical rock faces.
36. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
38. (informal) Of the highest quality.
39. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
40. Of or relating to or near the tarsus of the foot.
43. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
47. The eleventh month of the civil year.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
51. The basic unit of money in Yemen.
52. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
54. Someone who travels by raft.
57. Formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
58. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
59. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
61. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
63. The sister of your father or mother.
65. Come into existence.
66. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
67. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
68. Slanderous defamation.
69. Follower of Rastafarianism.
71. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
73. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
75. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
76. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
81. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
82. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
85. (Welsh) A warrior god.
88. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
90. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
92. An associate degree in nursing.
93. The basic unit of money in Zaire.
94. Rate of revolution of a motor.
95. Sewing that repairs a worn or torn place in a garment.
99. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
100. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
101. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
102. A lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis.
103. The food served and eaten at one time.
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1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
2. A feeling of intense anger.
3. A festival featuring African-American culture.
4. Type genus of the Cynipidae.
5. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
6. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
7. A state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border.
8. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
9. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
10. Before noon.
11. Ruffed grouse.
12. Black tropical American cuckoo.
13. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
14. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
15. A language group of the Hokan family.
22. A heavy textile with a woven design.
24. The animal order including amoebas.
26. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
33. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
35. Gain in value, as of a currency.
37. Hard dry sharp-flavored Italian cheese.
41. A change for the better as a result of correcting abuses.
42. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
44. New World chameleons.
45. Deep purplish red n 1.
46. Situated in front of the anus.
49. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
53. Family based on male descent.
55. Type genus of the Anatidae.
56. One (as a judge) who examines and settles a case.
60. Deficient in amount or quality or extent.
62. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
64. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
70. Enthusiastic approval.
71. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
72. Somewhat ill or prone to illness.
74. A boy or man.
77. A manicurist who trims the fingernails.
78. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
79. The brightest star in Cygnus.
80. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
83. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
84. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
86. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
87. Made of fir or pine.
89. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
90. Before noon.
91. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
96. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
97. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
98. An uproarious party.
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