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1. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
5. A French abbot.
9. (British slang) An unpleasant smell.
13. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
16. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
17. Having relatively few calories.
18. The highest level or degree attainable.
19. Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of.
20. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
22. Common house and field crickets.
24. A smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure.
26. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle.
27. Helicopter carrying a reel of steel cable that can be used to lift and transport heavy objects.
29. Beyond what is natural.
30. 16 ounces.
31. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
33. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
34. A primeval personification of air and breath.
42. The basic unit of money in Romania.
44. Type genus of the Sittidae.
46. Any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers.
47. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
48. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
50. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
51. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
53. The first canonical hour.
54. A blemish made by dirt.
57. Conforming to truth.
58. A unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold.
59. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
61. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
62. A tributary of the Rhine.
64. (prefix) Within.
65. (used of arms and legs) Bent outward with the joint away from the body.
68. The bill in a restaurant.
69. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
71. The form of ratbite fever occurring in the Far East.
72. Lower in esteem.
74. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
76. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
78. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
80. Situated at the top or highest position.
81. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
83. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
84. German educator who founded the kindergarten system (1782-1852).
87. (Welsh) Corresponds to Iris Ler.
89. Extremely robust.
93. An electrically charged particle.
94. A large ax with a broad cutting blade.
96. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
97. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
98. A very light brown.
99. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
101. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
102. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
103. Fecal matter of animals.
104. Morally bad or wrong.
105. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed.
2. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
3. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
4. Sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains.
5. A public promotion of some product or service.
6. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
7. An author born in Ireland who lived in France.
8. The univalent hydrocarbon radical C2H5 derived from ethane by the removal of one hydrogen atom.
9. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
10. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
11. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
12. A city in north central Morocco.
13. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
14. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
15. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
21. How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.
23. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
25. Semisoft pale-yellow cheese.
28. The presence of potassium in the circulating blood.
32. Affectedly trendy.
35. An island northwest of Wales.
36. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
37. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
38. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
39. The eleventh month of the civil year.
40. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
41. Accumulated on a surface of a solid.
43. A town on Long Island in New York.
45. An Old World reptile family of Sauria.
49. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
52. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
55. A member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley.
56. (of soil) Soft and watery.
60. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
63. A state in the western United States.
66. A radioactive transuranic element.
67. Offering fun and gaiety.
70. Used of old persons or old trees.
71. A public promotion of some product or service.
73. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
74. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
75. A short synopsis.
77. Of or relating to the aorta.
78. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
79. Sing softly.
82. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
85. Belonging to some prior time.
86. Pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment.
88. Being four more than sixty.
90. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
91. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
92. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
95. The month following July and preceding September.
100. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
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