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1. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
4. A woman of refinement.
9. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
13. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
16. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
17. United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935).
18. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
19. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
20. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
22. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
23. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
24. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
25. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
27. A Bantu language that is one of the two major languages of Zimbabwe.
30. To say or state again.
32. The longest division of geological time.
33. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
34. Type genus of the Caricaceae.
37. An informal term for a state of depression.
41. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
42. A state in New England.
46. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
47. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
48. Italian composer remembered for his operas (1792-1868).
50. A British colony in the West Indies.
52. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
53. Characteristic of or occurring in winter.
55. The skin that covers the top of the head.
56. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
59. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
61. A quantity of no importance.
62. Of or relating to or near the part of the back between the ribs and the hipbones.
63. A young child.
66. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
70. The presence of potassium in the circulating blood.
73. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
75. Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet.
78. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
79. Sour or bitter in taste.
80. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
83. Of or relating to or measured in ohms.
87. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
88. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
92. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
93. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
94. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
95. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
97. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
98. A column of light (as from a beacon).
99. Battle of World War II (1944).
100. A small cake leavened with yeast.
101. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
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1. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
2. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
3. An account of the author's personal experiences.
4. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
5. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
6. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
7. Look forward to the probably occurrence of.
8. A state in New England.
9. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
10. A public promotion of some product or service.
11. Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing.
12. Type genus of the Anatidae.
13. A port and tourist center in southwestern Italy.
14. A city of central China.
15. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
21. The first canonical hour.
26. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
28. Hulled corn with the bran and germ removed.
29. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
31. New Guinea echidnas.
35. (of snakes and eels) Naturally footless.
36. One thousand periods per second.
38. A small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix.
39. Irish version of burgoo.
40. Having a series of short sharp noises.
43. Climbing vine native to China.
44. A port and the capital of Guinea.
45. 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.
49. A city in central Alabama on the Alabama river.
51. An azure blue semiprecious stone.
54. Type genus of the family Tridacnidae.
57. A bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt.
58. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
60. Minor or subordinate.
64. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
65. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
67. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
68. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
69. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
71. The superior of a group of nuns.
72. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
74. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
76. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
77. Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920).
81. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
82. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
84. Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail.
85. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
86. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
89. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
90. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
91. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
96. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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