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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. Common Indian weaverbird.
8. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
12. The handle of a weapon or tool.
16. An awkward stupid person.
17. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
18. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
19. Neat and tidy.
20. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. A region in northmost Europe inhabited by Lapps.
24. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
28. A person of unquestioning obedience.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. Deciduous horn of a member of the deer family.
35. Of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets.
39. Lacking companions or companionship.
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. (especially of promises or contracts) Not violated or disregarded.
47. (prefix) Within.
48. Basic principles of the cosmos.
49. An island republic on Nauru Island.
50. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
52. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
54. Rate of revolution of a motor.
55. A crate for packing soap.
58. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
61. Any plant of the genus Inula.
63. One of the green parts that form the calyx of a flower.
64. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
65. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
68. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
69. A city in southeastern Spain.
72. Similar to the color of a ripe orange.
74. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
77. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
81. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
83. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
85. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
86. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
90. A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck.
92. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
93. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
95. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
96. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
97. By bad luck.
98. A small hard fruit.
99. A column of light (as from a beacon).
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1. Greenish-yellow pear.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A master's degree in fine arts.
4. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
5. State capital and largest city of Georgia.
6. Not only so, but.
7. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
8. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
9. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
10. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
11. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
12. A republic in the western Balkans in south-central Europe in the eastern Adriatic coastal area.
13. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
14. A shape that spreads outward.
15. Elected Vice President and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died (1790-1862).
21. 3rd largest island in the world.
23. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
27. Liquid excretory product.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
31. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
32. (informal usage) A general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction.
34. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
36. A resident of London.
37. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
38. Often cultivated for the decorative foliage.
41. (linguistics) Relating to the dative case.
42. The electrode in a transistor where electrons originate.
44. The 4th largest of Jupiter's satellites.
45. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
46. A small island republic on the Tuvalu islands.
51. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
53. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
56. An enclosed space in which the air pressure is higher than outside.
57. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
59. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
60. Of or relating to or like or in the manner of the Roman Seneca.
62. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
66. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
67. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
70. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
71. A Mid-Atlantic state.
73. Primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering.
75. Jordan's port.
76. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
78. A foot traveler.
79. Any plant of the genus Erica.
80. A city in northeastern France in Lorraine.
82. In bed.
84. Type genus of the Anatidae.
87. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
88. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
89. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
91. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
94. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
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