ACROSS
1. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
4. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
8. A French abbot.
12. God of love and erotic desire.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. Made by polymerizing butadiene.
18. An inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people.
19. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
20. King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975).
22. Wounded by cutting deeply.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
26. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
28. (of time) Having passed or slipped by.
31. Enthusiastic approval.
33. (Judaism) Not conforming to dietary laws.
36. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
40. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
41. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
42. A small island.
46. A person who weeps.
48. A mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated.
50. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
52. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
53. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
54. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
55. A female domestic.
56. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
59. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
61. The father of your father or mother.
63. Conforming to truth.
64. The quarter of many European cities in which Jews are required to live.
65. Of or relating to the spine or spinal cord.
69. The airforce of Great Britain.
70. The outermost region of the sun's atmosphere.
72. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
75. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
77. Not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course.
79. Informal terms for a mother.
80. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
82. A member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario.
88. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
91. A city in northern India.
93. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
94. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
95. Growing old.
96. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
97. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
98. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
99. Right-hand page.
100. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
101. Tag the base runner to get him out.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. United States writer (born in 1923).
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
6. An associate degree in nursing.
7. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
8. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
9. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
10. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
11. Late time of life.
12. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
13. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
14. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite.
15. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
21. Of superior grade.
23. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
27. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
29. Traveling by foot.
30. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
32. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
34. Outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape.
35. A genus of Old World mints of the family Labiatae.
37. Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley.
38. A payment of money sent to a person in another place.
39. An exchange that occurs as a compromise.
43. A branch of the Tai languages.
44. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
45. Small genus of southeastern Asian tropics.
47. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
49. Type genus of the Tupaia.
51. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
57. Occurring or payable every year.
58. Indigo bush.
60. Wearing footgear.
62. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
66. Without any attempt at concealment.
67. A small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin.
68. Harmed or injured or spoiled.
69. Late time of life.
71. A group of related languages spoken in a valley of southern Ethiopia.
72. American novelist (1909-1955).
73. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
74. (used informally) Very small.
76. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
78. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
81. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
83. Something that remunerates.
84. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
85. Characteristic of false pride.
86. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
87. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
89. The month following February and preceding April.
90. How long something has existed.
92. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
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