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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
8. A quantity of no importance.
12. Imprudently incurring risk.
16. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
17. A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence.
18. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
19. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. A blind god.
22. Give over.
23. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
24. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.
27. Call forth.
30. Minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves.
34. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
36. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
38. The posterior part of the mandible that is more or less vertical.
43. Sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid.
47. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
48. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
51. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
52. The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves).
53. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
54. A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British).
56. A form of address for a man.
57. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
59. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
60. American poet (born in England) (1907-1973).
62. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
65. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
66. The capital and largest city of Norway.
67. Enthusiastic approval.
70. A woman of refinement.
72. Large genus of tropical American vines having showy often spotted umbellate flowers.
75. Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.
77. An industrial city in the European part of Russia.
80. A substance that oxidizes another substance.
82. Someone who puts to good use.
84. Rhizomatous herb of India having aromatic seeds used as seasoning.
88. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
89. Webbing clothes moths.
91. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
92. A small piece of cloth.
93. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
94. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
96. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
97. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
98. A small hard fruit.
99. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
100. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
2. A hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity).
3. One million periods per second.
4. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
5. Two items of the same kind.
6. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
7. Italian architect who pioneered in the use of reinforced concrete (1891-1979).
8. Miscellaneous curios.
9. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
10. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. Undergo resorption.
13. Strong and sharp.
14. A sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay.
15. A family of Amerindian languages spoken in California.
25. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
26. Capital of modern Macedonia.
28. Thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal.
29. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
31. Being nine more than ninety.
32. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
33. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
35. Genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes.
37. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
39. Dividing an animal into right and left halves.
40. A Finnish steam bath.
41. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
42. A studio especially for an artist or designer.
44. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
45. A canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter.
46. The name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name).
49. Pearl oysters.
50. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
55. The capital and largest city of Nepal.
58. Involving the entire earth.
61. An informal term for a father.
63. The most commonly used diphenylbutyl piperidine.
64. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
68. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
69. Lacking in rigor or strictness.
71. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
72. Strong and sharp.
73. Inflammation of the ear.
74. A line of approach.
76. Having a margin incised almost to the base so as to create distinct divisions or lobes.
78. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
79. A long narrow natural elevation or striation.
81. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
83. Tear or be torn violently.
85. A plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing.
86. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
87. Informal terms for a mother.
90. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
95. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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