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1. Greenish-yellow pear.
5. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
9. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
13. Any of various units of capacity.
16. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
17. Advanced in years.
18. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. On or toward the lee.
23. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
24. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
26. Worn until no longer useful.
29. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
31. A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.
33. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
36. The cry made by sheep.
38. Sour or bitter in taste.
41. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
43. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
48. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
49. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. A landlocked principality in the Himalayas northeast of India.
52. A primeval personification of air and breath.
53. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
54. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
56. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
57. The wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany.
59. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
63. An important person in India.
64. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
65. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
66. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
67. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
68. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
70. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
71. Garlic mayonnaise.
72. A receiver that displays television images.
74. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
76. One thousandth of a second.
77. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
80. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
81. (formal) A person who announces important news.
84. German dramatist whose works concern people torn between reason and emotion (1777-1811).
88. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
92. Relating to or characteristic of an apogee.
94. A complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice.
96. The month following February and preceding April.
97. An elaborate party (often outdoors).
98. One who works hard at boring tasks.
100. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
101. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
102. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
103. A slender double-reed instrument.
104. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
105. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
106. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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1. (informal) Exceptionally good.
2. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
3. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba.
5. The bill in a restaurant.
6. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
10. Declared but not proved.
11. English monk and scholar (672-735).
12. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
13. A secondary or inferior position or status.
14. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
15. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
25. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
27. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
28. Fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores.
30. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
32. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
34. Second month of the Revolutionary calendar (October and November).
35. Involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct.
37. A French abbot.
39. Easily deciphered.
40. (formal) Ordinary and not refined.
42. Any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles.
44. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
45. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
46. A town in southern Turkey.
47. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
50. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
55. Perennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America.
58. A group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus.
60. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
61. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
62. A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico.
66. Having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds.
69. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
73. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
75. The essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized.
76. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
78. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
79. A crystal of snow.
82. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
83. (Roman Catholic Church) The supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
84. An associate degree in nursing.
85. The square of a body of any size of type.
86. The eighth month of the civil year.
87. Turn sharply.
88. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
89. Type genus of the Amiidae.
90. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
91. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
93. Tag the base runner to get him out.
95. (informal) Roused to anger.
99. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
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