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1. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
5. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
9. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
13. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
16. A primeval personification of air and breath.
17. A very light brown.
18. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
19. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
20. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
21. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
22. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
23. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
24. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
26. Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill.
29. Music composed for dancing the conga.
30. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
31. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
33. A theatrical performer.
38. A city in southern Malawi.
42. A person employed to carry luggage and supplies.
44. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
46. Small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail.
47. A republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola.
50. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
51. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
52. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
53. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
54. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
56. Give a promotion to.
59. Have supper.
60. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
62. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
63. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
64. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
65. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
70. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
72. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
74. The domain controlled by a duke or duchess.
75. Relating to or characteristic of cubism.
77. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
80. (of snakes and eels) Naturally footless.
82. (Phoenician and Philistine) God of agriculture and the earth.
86. Strike with a flat object.
89. Of or containing iridium.
91. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
92. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
93. Chief port of Yemen.
95. The sixth month of the civil year.
96. A notable achievement.
97. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
98. (informal) Exceptionally good.
99. A floor covering.
100. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
2. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
3. (Roman mythology) Roman god of death.
4. Founder in 1629 of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1588-1665).
5. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
6. Lean end of the neck.
7. A particular environment or walk of life.
8. Not accepting reservations.
9. A small British coin worth six pennies.
10. Highly excited.
11. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. Among the largest bony fish.
14. Not only so, but.
15. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
25. Squash bugs and leaf-footed bugs.
27. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
28. A highwayman who robs on foot.
32. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
34. Mix together different elements.
35. A fast sailboat with 3 parallel hulls.
36. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
37. Having short a smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum.
39. An iron-clad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North.
40. Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation.
41. An island northwest of Wales.
43. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
45. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
48. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
49. A genus of Indriidae.
55. Pacific newts.
57. A mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing.
58. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
61. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
66. The capital of Western Samoa.
67. Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.
68. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
69. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
70. Among the largest bony fish.
71. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
73. Of or relating to or characteristic of Julius Caesar.
76. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
78. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
79. A musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it.
81. The face of a timepiece.
83. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
84. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
85. A quantity of no importance.
87. Extremely pleasing.
88. 32nd President of the United States.
90. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
94. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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