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1. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
5. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
9. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
13. Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits.
16. Slightly open.
17. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
18. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
19. Being one more than six.
20. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
21. French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris Bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794).
22. The comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment.
24. Being ten more than fifty.
25. A genus of Bothidae.
27. Further or added.
29. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
30. A yearning for something or to do something.
31. Either extremity of something that has length.
33. On the side away from the wind.
35. Deliberately arranged for effect.
38. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
40. With no effort to conceal.
41. Battle in which the ruler of Afghanistan defeated the Mahrattas in 1761.
43. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
45. Divisible by two.
48. A rapid bustling commotion.
49. Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness.
52. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
53. The Destroyer.
54. The amount a salary is increased.
56. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
59. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
62. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
63. An established ceremony prescribed by a religion.
64. An event that repeats.
65. The opening into the stomach and that part of the stomach connected to the esophagus.
67. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
68. Made of fir or pine.
70. Jordan's port.
72. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
73. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
76. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
77. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
79. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
81. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
82. In bed.
88. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
91. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
93. In a foreign country.
95. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
96. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
97. Produced by a manufacturing process.
99. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
100. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
101. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
102. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
103. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
104. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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1. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
2. A mythical Greek hero.
3. A flexible container with a single opening.
4. Whip scorpions.
5. Of or relating to or near the pudendum.
6. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
7. Horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window.
8. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
9. Something causes misery or death.
10. Before noon.
11. An oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue.
12. Genus of Indonesian and Malaysian timber trees rich in resin.
13. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
14. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
15. Production of a certain amount.
23. Without law or control.
26. Pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings.
28. Being ten more than thirty.
32. A light touch or stroke.
34. Having the benefit of careful prior consideration or counsel.
36. Freetail bats.
37. Administer an oil or ointment to.
39. The mints.
42. Any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts.
44. The cry made by sheep.
46. A statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth.
47. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
50. Cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person.
51. Indigo bush.
55. A bed where seedlings are grown before transplanting.
57. Resembling the beak of a bird.
58. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
60. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
61. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
66. A hinged vertical airfoil mounted at the tail of an aircraft and used to make horizontal course changes.
69. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
71. A small cake leavened with yeast.
74. Nocturnal wildcat of Central and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat.
75. A long brightly colored shawl.
78. A monosaccharide sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is hemiacetal.
80. Of or relating to or associated with the moon.
83. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
84. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
85. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
86. God of love and erotic desire.
87. A quantity of no importance.
89. Material used to daub walls.
90. Chief port of Yemen.
92. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
94. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
98. A public promotion of some product or service.
99. A partially opened flower.
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