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1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. Bringing death.
9. Not in action or at work.
13. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
16. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
17. Of or like a feeble old woman.
18. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
19. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
20. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
21. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
23. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
24. Blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi.
25. A self-righteous or sanctimonious person.
26. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
29. Being one more than two.
30. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
32. A hardy genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and northern Africa and western Asia.
34. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
37. A white trivalent metallic element.
39. A state in east central United States.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
48. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
50. Especially a lavatory in a public place.
53. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
55. American civil rights worker in Mississippi.
57. French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-152).
58. A subdivision of a larger religious group.
59. Wife of Balder.
60. Wear away.
62. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
63. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
64. A beautiful and graceful girl.
65. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
67. A populous province in northeastern China.
69. A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.
72. The basic unit of length adopted under the System International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards).
73. Shape anew or differently.
77. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
80. Jordan's port.
83. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
89. Tasting sour like a lemon.
92. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
93. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
95. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
97. A master's degree in business.
98. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
99. First in order of importance.
100. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
101. The longest division of geological time.
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1. Italian painter and son of Fra Filippo Lippi (1457-1504).
2. A genus of Indriidae.
3. A town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England.
4. Youngest daughter of the prophet Mohammed and wife of the fourth calif Ali.
5. Type genus of the Anatidae.
6. Regularly spaced in time.
7. American dramatist (1928- ).
8. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
9. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
10. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
11. Australian moundbird.
12. Take in solid food.
13. Third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964).
14. Someone who drives a taxi for a living.
15. Type genus of Cycadaceae.
22. Tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm.
27. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
28. Large scissors with strong blades.
31. A dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin.
33. Kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts.
35. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
36. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
38. Of or relating to a combinatorial system devised by George Boole that combines propositions with the logical operators AND and OR and IF THEN and EXCEPT and NOT.
40. A member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah.
42. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
44. A republic in central Europe.
46. State clearly.
47. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.
49. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
51. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
52. A state in New England.
54. A healthy state of wellbeing free from disease.
56. A person who lacks good judgment.
61. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
66. Of or belonging to an aecium.
68. Painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of Dadaism.
70. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
71. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
74. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
75. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
76. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
78. Collect or gather.
79. One skilled in caring for the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician).
81. Squash bugs.
82. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
84. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
85. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
86. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
87. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
88. The provision of money temporarily (usually at interest).
90. The sign language used in the United States.
91. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
94. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
96. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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