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1. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
5. A genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
13. (football) Of advancing the ball by throwing it.
17. American novelist (1909-1955).
18. Lacking natural ease.
19. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
20. A toothed metal band driven by two wheels.
22. Small usually single-celled reproductive body produced especially by certain bacteria and algae and fungi and nonflowering plants.
23. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
24. The branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light.
25. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.
27. One thousand grams.
28. (Britain) Flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea.
30. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
31. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
33. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
35. A small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot.
38. A radioactive transuranic element.
40. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
45. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
46. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
49. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
51. A city in central Japan on southern Honshu.
53. A small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Lupus and Ara in the Milky Way.
56. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
58. Type genus of the Anatidae.
59. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
61. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
62. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
63. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
64. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
65. A city in Indonesia.
67. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
68. A public promotion of some product or service.
69. English essayist (1775-1834).
70. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
72. Someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art.
74. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
76. A decree that prohibits something.
78. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
79. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
81. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
82. A soft silvery metallic element.
84. A metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping.
86. Battle in 401 BC when the Persian King Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne.
89. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
91. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
94. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
95. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
97. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
99. A mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water.
101. Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses.
102. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
103. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
104. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
105. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
106. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
107. The twelfth month of the civil year.
108. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
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1. Son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil.
2. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
3. Involving the mind or an intellectual process.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. A state in northwestern North America.
6. The sound made by corvine birds.
7. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
8. A contestant who loses the contest.
9. A young upwardly mobile professional person.
10. Feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure's your self-worth.
11. A plant lacking a permanent woody stem.
12. Any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers.
13. Situated in a particular spot or position.
14. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
15. Not in good physical or mental health.
16. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
21. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
26. A state in midwestern United States.
29. Either extremity of something that has length.
32. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
34. Something causes misery or death.
36. (British) Property that provides tax income for local governments.
37. Being ten more than thirty.
39. Resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers.
41. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
42. Worker in a railway yard.
43. Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
44. A state in northwestern North America.
47. Conducive to peace.
48. Offering fun and gaiety.
50. A noisy riotous fight.
52. A language group of the Hokan family.
54. Small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters.
55. Felt hat with a creased crown.
57. Wildly disordered.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
66. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
68. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves.
71. (Bible) The archangel who was the messenger of God.
72. A contestant who loses the contest.
73. Toward the mouth or oral region.
75. A city of southeastern Mexico.
77. In the shape of a coil.
80. Staying temporarily.
83. A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes.
85. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
87. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
88. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
90. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
92. One thousandth of a second.
93. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
96. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
98. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
100. An associate degree in applied science.
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