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1. Inquire about.
4. Especially of a ship's lines etc.
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
13. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
16. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. Ritual hand movement in Hindu religious dancing.
18. A city in northern India.
19. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
20. A transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem.
22. A deep bow.
24. An associate degree in applied science.
25. A unit of traffic intensity in a telephone system.
27. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
29. (informal) Exceptionally good.
30. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
32. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
34. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
37. Of or relating to the songbirds n.
41. Source of a tough elastic wood.
45. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
47. (Roman mythology) God of love.
48. Rounded like an egg.
49. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
52. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
53. The central area of a church.
54. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
56. (of persons) Freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject.
57. The act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail).
59. English essayist (1775-1834).
61. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
62. A resource.
63. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
64. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
67. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
71. Type genus of the Anatidae.
72. A person with unusual powers of foresight.
73. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
74. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
75. (biology) Having or resembling wings.
78. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
81. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
85. Characterized by or full of force or strength (often but not necessarily physical).
90. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
93. Any admirable quality or attribute.
94. Noisy talk.
96. Not reflecting light.
97. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
99. Antibacterial agent (trade names Mandelamine and Urex) that is contained in many products that are used to treat urinary infections.
101. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
102. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
103. Distant in either space or time.
104. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
105. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
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1. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
2. Bake (eggs) in their shells until they are set.
3. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
4. A primeval personification of air and breath.
5. The taxonomic kingdom of lower plants.
6. Not divisible by two.
7. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
8. An East Indian sailor.
9. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
10. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison.
13. A fraudulent business scheme.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
15. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
21. A reformed prostitute.
23. A state in northwestern North America.
26. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
28. A covered passageway.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. The grasses.
35. Related to or concerned with alchemy.
36. Relating to or denoting or characteristic of Catalonia or its inhabitants.
38. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
39. Not ionic.
40. An abnormally high degree of irritability or sensitivity or excitability.
42. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
43. Loon family.
44. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
46. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
50. Lacking or having only very short awns.
51. Being nine more than ninety.
55. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
58. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
60. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
65. In a mildly insane manner.
66. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
68. An ability to understand a broad range of topics.
69. The cry made by sheep.
70. A country on western coast of Africa.
76. Held up in the air.
77. An informal debt instrument.
79. A radioactive transuranic element.
80. Of inferior or mixed breed.
83. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
84. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
86. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
87. A genus of Mustelidae.
88. (prefix) Outside or outer.
89. A Loloish language.
91. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
92. Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.
95. Of southern Europe.
98. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
100. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
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