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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
8. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
12. An infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages.
16. The capital and largest city of Japan.
17. (Roman Catholic Church) The supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
18. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
19. An endorsement.
20. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
21. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
22. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
23. Informal terms for money.
24. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
26. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. Having high moral qualities.
29. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
33. A fastener for a door or lid.
34. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
35. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
37. Seed of a pea plant.
38. Being nine more than ninety.
40. A French abbot.
43. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
45. A mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women.
49. Constituting a copy or imitation of something.
51. A lack of vitality.
53. A distinct feature or element in a problem.
54. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
56. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
57. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
59. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
60. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
61. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
64. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
66. A genus of Ploceidae.
69. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
72. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
73. European food fish.
74. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..
75. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
78. In an idle manner.
79. Trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets.
82. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
84. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine).
92. Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it.
93. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
95. A city in northern India.
96. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
97. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
99. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
101. A boy or man.
102. A master's degree in fine arts.
103. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
104. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
105. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
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1. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
2. Love intensely.
3. A member of an aboriginal people living in the hills in southeastern India.
4. Goddess of fate.
5. Of the blackest black.
6. The ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail.
7. A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together.
8. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
9. Italian poet considered the national poet of modern Italy (1835-1907).
10. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
11. 10 grams.
12. Port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan.
13. Jordan's port.
14. Prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels.
15. Woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat.
25. A member of a Muslim Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan).
30. Top part of an apron.
31. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
32. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
36. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
39. Large fan palms of tropical Asia to Australia.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
42. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
44. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
46. (Greek mythology) Sea nymph who was a daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.
47. A team game that resembles basketball.
48. In a stagy and theatrical manner.
50. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
52. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
55. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
58. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
62. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
63. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
65. (of a bed) Not having the sheets and blankets set in order.
67. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
68. 16 ounces.
70. American mountain mint.
71. A Loloish language.
76. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
77. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
80. A large number or amount.
81. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
83. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
85. An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.
86. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
87. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
88. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
89. An Eskimo hut.
90. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
91. A quantity of no importance.
94. Fiddler crabs.
98. A state in New England.
100. A soft silvery metallic element.
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