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1. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
4. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
8. An Eskimo hut.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
16. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
17. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. A field of cultivated and mowed grass.
19. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
20. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
21. A genus of Paradisaeidae.
23. Enter uninvited.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
26. A character set that includes letters.
27. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
28. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
30. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
32. Deprive of by deceit.
36. A red or yellow or brown mineral.
41. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
42. A villainous Jew in Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist".
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
48. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
49. German statesman.
51. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
53. Being of use or service.
55. Of or related to the pain of angina pectoris.
56. (Irish) The sea personified.
57. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
58. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
60. Any of various brown and yellow finches of pats of Europe.
61. Stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug.
63. Resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree.
66. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
67. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
68. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
69. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
70. A flexible container with a single opening.
73. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
74. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
75. A postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory.
78. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
81. A state in east central United States.
82. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
83. (Babylonian) Consort of Anu.
84. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
86. Having leaves or leaves as specified.
89. A Loloish language.
90. Of or relating to or derived from or containing boron.
94. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
95. The ability to form mental images of things or events.
99. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
100. Wild and domestic cattle.
101. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
102. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
104. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.
105. Inquire about.
106. A positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device.
107. A small cake leavened with yeast.
108. The fatty flesh of eel.
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1. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
5. Brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters.
6. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
7. Type genus of the Elopidae.
8. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
9. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
10. A radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium.
11. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
12. The condition of having no arms.
13. A sultanate in northwestern Borneo.
14. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
15. Stalk of a moss capsule.
22. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
25. Slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish.
29. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
31. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
33. Of or relating to or characteristic of Eritrea or its people.
34. Of or relating to Fabianism.
35. An informal term for a father.
37. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
38. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
39. A television broadcast.
40. The ordinary person.
43. Family based on male descent.
44. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
45. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
50. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
52. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
54. Any plant of the genus Erica.
59. Half the width of an em.
62. A town in western Kentucky on the Ohio River.
64. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
65. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
71. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
72. Small-holed Swiss cheese.
73. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
76. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
77. An insane person.
79. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
80. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
85. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
87. (Greek mythology) God of love.
88. A genus of Mustelidae.
91. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
92. A small island.
93. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
96. A rapid bustling commotion.
97. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
98. A cruel and brutal fellow.
103. An informal term for a father.
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