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1. Wild and domestic cattle.
4. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
8. Weapons considered collectively.
12. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. God of fire.
18. South African term for `boss'.
19. Beside one another in a row or rank.
20. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
21. The central area of a church.
22. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
23. The middle of the day.
24. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
26. Inability to walk.
29. Common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers.
31. Treated with iodine.
33. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
36. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
37. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
38. Genus of western North American herbs having showy flowers.
43. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
46. A thermometer that uses thermoelectric current to measure temperature.
49. A small replica of a person.
50. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
52. Someone who sends a telegram.
53. Without moral standards or principles.
55. Used of a single unit or thing.
56. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
57. Cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful.
58. Cause to explode.
61. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
63. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
65. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
66. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
69. A Hindu religious teacher.
70. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
72. New Guinea echidnas.
74. Plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson).
77. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
79. An associate degree in applied science.
80. Lead someone in the wrong direction.
82. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
83. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
87. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
88. A Christian Bishop who translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic (311-382).
91. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
93. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
94. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
95. A small cake leavened with yeast.
97. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
98. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
99. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram.
100. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
101. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
2. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
3. A river in western Europe that rises in northern France and flows generally east into Belgium where it joins the Neuse at Namur.
4. A nation in northern North America.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
7. United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971).
8. Cause to be embarrassed.
9. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
10. New Zealand conifer.
11. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
12. An island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa.
13. Call forth.
14. English actor and comedian who appeared on television and in films (born in 1935).
15. Having awns i.e. bristle- or hair-like appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses.
25. Small North American falcon.
27. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
28. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
30. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
32. A Russian river.
34. The capital and largest city of Greece.
35. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
39. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
40. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
41. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
42. American filmmaker and comic actor (1935- ).
44. Express strong disapproval of.
45. Any of several plants of the genus Freesia valued for their one-sided clusters of usually fragrant yellow or white or pink tubular flowers.
47. Any plant of the genus Erica.
48. A form of address for a man.
51. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
54. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
59. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
60. Genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers.
62. The usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant.
64. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
67. Resembling apes.
68. Slang for `drunk'.
69. United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971).
71. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
73. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
75. Low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage.
76. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
78. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
79. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
81. A Scottish word.
82. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
84. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
85. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
86. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
89. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
90. A strong emotion.
92. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
96. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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