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1. A master's degree in business.
4. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
9. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
13. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
16. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
17. A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee.
18. The sixth month of the civil year.
19. A passage with access only at one end.
20. God of dawn and light.
22. In small tight curls.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. Spot, stain, or pollute.
27. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
29. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
31. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
32. An awkward stupid person.
33. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
39. Resembling a beast.
43. Highly excited.
45. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
46. Desire strongly or persistently.
47. The quality of a person's voice.
48. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.
50. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
51. One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.
52. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
53. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
56. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
60. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.
61. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
64. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
66. The habitation of wild animals.
69. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
70. Report or maintain.
72. A town in east central Missouri.
75. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
79. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
80. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
83. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
87. Greek mythology.
90. Found along western Atlantic coast.
92. The territory of Athens in ancient Greece.
93. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
94. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
95. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
97. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
99. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
100. A young woman making her debut into society.
101. American civil rights worker in Mississippi.
102. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
103. An operating system that is on a disk.
104. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
2. A coffin along with its stand.
3. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
4. An honorary degree in science.
5. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
6. An opening into or through something.
7. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
8. Earlier in time.
9. Following surreptitiously.
10. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
11. An ancient region of west central Italy (southeast of Rome) on the Tyrrhenian Sea.
12. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
13. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
14. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
15. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
21. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation.
23. Prolific Flemish baroque painter.
28. Again but in a new or different way.
30. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
34. Lacking gonads.
35. A railway having a single track.
36. An expression of open-mouthed astonishment.
37. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
38. The study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating).
40. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
41. The triad of divinities of later Hinduism.
42. Any ameba of the genus Endamoeba.
44. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates sperm-forming cells in male mammals.
49. Make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas.
54. English monk and scholar (672-735).
55. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
57. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
58. An inhabitant of Lappland.
59. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
62. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
63. A unit of power equal to 746 watts.
65. Noisy quarrel.
67. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
68. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
71. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
73. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
74. No longer active or practicing.
76. Lower in esteem.
77. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
78. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
81. Not widely known.
82. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
84. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
85. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
86. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
87. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
88. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
89. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
91. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
96. The eleventh month of the civil year.
98. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
99. Minor or subordinate.
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