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1. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
4. A picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide.
9. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
13. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
16. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
17. 100 aurar equal 1 krona.
18. Deeply moved.
19. The sound made by a gentle blow.
20. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
21. Being or serving as an illustration of a type.
22. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
23. How long something has existed.
24. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
26. Type genus of the Giraffidae.
28. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
30. Soft blue-gray mineral.
32. The capital and largest city of Bavaria in southeastern Germany.
34. East Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals.
37. A purging medicine.
41. Half the width of an em.
42. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
47. A state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms.
48. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
51. Conceived of or imagined or hoped for.
54. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
55. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
56. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
57. Genus of powdery mildews.
58. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
59. An informal term for a father.
62. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
63. Submerged freshwater perennials.
66. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
68. A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
69. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
70. Marked by correspondence or resemblance.
74. Lower in esteem.
76. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
78. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
79. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
81. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
82. Humorously vulgar.
85. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
88. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
90. (Phoenician and Philistine) God of agriculture and the earth.
94. Common house and field crickets.
96. Neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front.
98. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
99. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
100. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
102. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
103. A notable achievement.
104. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates sperm-forming cells in male mammals.
105. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
106. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
107. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
2. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
3. Evil or harmful in nature or influence.
4. Having only superficial plausibility.
5. Dutch physicist who first formulated the wave theory of light (1629-1695).
6. Perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers.
7. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
8. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
9. Not straightforward or candid.
10. A formal expression of praise.
11. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
12. A city in the central Netherlands.
13. A major god.
14. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
15. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
25. Brittle flat bread eaten at Passover.
27. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
29. Of or relating to the thyroid gland.
31. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
35. Covered with or as if with a glossy and usually brightly colored coating.
36. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
38. A hypothesis that is taken for granted.
39. A house for storing ice.
40. A Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Celebrex) that relieves pain without harming the digestive tract.
43. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
45. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
46. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
49. German mathematician (1804-1851).
50. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
52. Type genus of the Meliaceae.
53. Colored or impregnated with dye.
60. An associate degree in applied science.
61. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
64. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
65. Someone who makes an offer.
67. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
71. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
72. Edible mushroom.
73. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened.
74. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
75. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
76. A major god.
77. Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
80. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
83. Type genus of the Gavidae.
84. A public promotion of some product or service.
86. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
87. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
89. South African term for `boss'.
91. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
92. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
93. A quantity of no importance.
95. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
97. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
101. The square of a body of any size of type.
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