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1. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
5. (informal) Exceptionally good.
9. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
13. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
16. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
17. A genus of Mustelidae.
18. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
19. The seed of the cereal grass.
20. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
21. United States financier (born in France) who helped finance the War of 1812 (1750-1831).
23. An associate degree in applied science.
24. A blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant.
25. Tending to relax or relieve muscular or nervous tension.
28. A light touch or stroke.
30. Any of various floor-like platforms built into a vessel.
31. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
36. Informal terms for a mother.
40. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
46. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
47. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
50. A quantity of no importance.
51. Any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads.
55. A genus of European owls.
56. The formation of frost or ice on a surface.
58. Flat and uninspiring.
59. Being one more than nine.
61. An associate degree in nursing.
62. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
63. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
64. American novelist (1909-1955).
66. Being one more than one hundred.
67. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
69. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
71. A small cake leavened with yeast.
73. Capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression.
75. A bachelor's degree in science.
77. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
81. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
84. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
87. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
90. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
92. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
94. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
95. Very dark black.
96. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
98. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
99. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
100. Posing no difficulty.
101. God of death.
102. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
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1. Smallest merganser and most expert diver.
2. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
3. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
4. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
5. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
6. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.
7. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
8. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
9. 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.
10. The father of your father or mother.
11. A trademark for a loosely woven cotton fabric that is used to make shirts and underwear.
12. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
13. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
14. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
15. Flat tableland with steep edges.
22. Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.
26. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
27. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
29. A bachelor's degree in religion.
32. A sudden and violent collapse.
33. A soft partly suppressed laugh.
34. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
35. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
37. By bad luck.
38. A group of street musicians in Mexico.
39. Pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia.
41. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
42. A deciduous tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in the southeastern United States.
43. A small drink.
44. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
45. Unknown god.
52. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
53. Deliberately arranged for effect.
54. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
57. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
60. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
65. A change for the better.
68. The cry made by sheep.
70. Marked or dyed or discolored with foreign matter.
71. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
72. Top part of an apron.
74. An East Indian sailor.
75. A public promotion of some product or service.
76. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
78. Jordan's port.
79. Very dark black.
80. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
82. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
83. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
85. (Greek mythology) God of love.
86. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
88. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
89. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
91. Liquid excretory product.
93. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
97. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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