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1. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
4. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
9. Greenish-yellow pear.
13. An affirmative.
16. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
17. Jordan's port.
18. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
19. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
20. An aggressive and violent young criminal.
22. A person holding a fief.
24. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
25. A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended.
26. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
28. Leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree.
30. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
32. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
35. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
39. Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances.
43. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
44. Italian violinist (1782-1840).
48. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
49. Urge or force (a person) to an action.
50. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
51. An opening that permits escape or release.
52. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
53. Type and sole genus of the family Albulidae.
55. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
56. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
57. 1/10 gram.
58. Any visible abnormal structural change in a bodily part.
59. A passage with access only at one end.
60. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
63. A person with unusual powers of foresight.
64. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
66. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
67. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
69. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
70. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
71. Battle in World War I (1917).
73. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
76. Type genus of the Caricaceae.
78. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
79. A genus of Indriidae.
82. Tree (as opposed to shrub).
85. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
89. A pad of paper for keeping notes.
92. Source of a tough elastic wood.
94. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
95. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
96. Lower in esteem.
98. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
99. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
100. Your general store of remembered information.
101. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
102. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.
103. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
104. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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1. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
2. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going".
3. A slender double-reed instrument.
4. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
5. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
6. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
7. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
8. Connected with or belonging to or used in a navy.
9. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
10. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
11. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
12. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
13. Not only so, but.
14. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
15. Type genus of the Amiidae.
21. (Greek mythology) Goddess of fertility and protector of marriage in ancient mythology.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. Lacking in body or vigor.
31. A tight-fitting headdress.
33. A shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep.
34. A local computer network for communication between computers.
36. Refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them.
37. A trellis on which ornamental shrub or fruit tree is trained to grow flat.
38. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
40. Old World chats.
41. On or outside the dura mater.
42. An imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian.
45. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
46. The superior of a group of nuns.
47. The state that precedes vomiting.
54. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
61. The wood of an African obeche tree.
62. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
65. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
68. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
72. An island in the southern Mariana Islands that is the administrative center of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
73. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
74. A cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred).
75. The 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
77. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
80. A unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt.
81. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
83. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
84. Avatar of Vishnu.
86. A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges.
87. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
88. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
90. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
91. A light touch or stroke.
93. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
94. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
97. Conforming to truth.
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