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1. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
4. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. Black tropical American cuckoo.
16. A state of southwestern India.
17. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
18. At any time.
19. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
20. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
21. Line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) toward the enemy.
23. Dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid.
25. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
27. United States chemist (born in Norway) noted for his work in thermodynamics (1903-1976).
28. Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931).
29. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
32. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
39. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
43. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
44. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. By bad luck.
49. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
51. With no effort to conceal.
53. The basic unit of money in China.
56. Being two more than fifty.
57. A primeval personification of air and breath.
58. (baseball) A list of batters in the order in which they will bat.
59. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
62. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
63. Biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root.
64. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
65. Squash bugs.
68. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
70. Ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side.
71. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
74. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
76. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
77. A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad.
81. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
83. Lower in esteem.
84. German musician who developed a system for teaching music to children (1895-1982).
91. A traditional story accepted as history.
94. The cry made by sheep.
95. On or toward the lee.
96. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
97. In or of the present month.
98. Related by blood.
99. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
100. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
101. Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root.
102. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
3. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
6. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
7. Informal terms for a meal.
8. Everything you own.
9. Ask for or request earnestly.
10. The eleventh month of the civil year.
11. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
12. Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages.
13. A leisurely walk (usually in some public place).
14. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
15. The content of cognition.
22. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
24. Spread or daub over.
26. Offering goods or services at less than standard price or rate.
30. A state in midwestern United States.
31. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
33. Any member of a ship's crew.
34. A system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year.
35. A person who rescues you from harm or danger.
36. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
37. A city in northwestern Mexico.
38. A person being ordained.
41. Type genus of the Gavidae.
46. English monk and scholar (672-735).
48. A particular environment or walk of life.
50. A Loloish language.
52. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
54. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
55. Be against.
60. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
61. Philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events.
66. Patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes.
67. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
69. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
72. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
73. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
75. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high).
78. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
79. A person who hates.
80. A radioactive transuranic element.
82. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
83. 16 ounces.
85. Framework for holding objects.
86. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
87. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
88. Not reflecting light.
89. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
90. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
92. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
93. Top part of an apron.
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