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1. A small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot.
5. A French abbot.
9. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
13. Extremely pleasing.
16. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
17. Taken or to be taken at random.
18. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
19. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
20. Genus of American of east Asian perennial herbs with yellow to orange or red flower rays.
21. (usually followed by `to') Full of eagerness.
23. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
24. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
25. Dark grayish extrusive rock.
28. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
32. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
34. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
36. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
37. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
39. Large or big relative to something else.
43. A lump of hard consolidated mineral matter.
46. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
51. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
52. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
55. A major waterfall in southern Africa.
57. The fifth day of the week.
58. Take in a sail with a brail.
60. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
62. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
63. United States comedian.
66. A public promotion of some product or service.
67. One-thousandth of an equivalent.
70. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
71. A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind.
72. A member of an aboriginal people living in the hills in southeastern India.
75. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
76. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
77. A fraudulent business scheme.
79. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
80. The act of scanning.
83. A wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding.
85. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
89. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
91. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
93. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
94. Type genus of the Manidae.
95. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
97. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
98. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
99. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
100. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
101. A light touch or stroke.
102. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
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1. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
4. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
5. A city in northern India.
6. Romanian sculptor noted for abstractions of animal forms (1876-1957).
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
8. A Spanish river.
9. A conspicuous constellation in the northern hemisphere.
10. A state of agitated irritation.
11. Highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic.
12. A tight embrace.
13. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
14. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
15. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
26. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
27. Drug (trade name Lorfan) that is related to morphine but that counteracts the respiratory depression produced by morphine poisoning but without affecting its analgesic effects.
29. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. A state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains.
38. United States sculptor (born in 1904).
40. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
41. An abnormally high degree of irritability or sensitivity or excitability.
42. North American sucker with reddish fins.
44. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
45. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
47. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
48. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
53. Pioneer of non-Euclidean geometry (1826-1866).
54. Report or maintain.
56. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
59. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
61. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
64. Succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers.
65. (anatomy) A structure that resembles a shell in shape.
68. The basic unit of money in Guatemala.
69. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
70. A Spanish river.
73. A Bantu language spoken in Cameroon.
74. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
78. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
81. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
82. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
84. Type genus of the Ranidae.
86. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
87. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
88. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
90. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
92. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
96. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
97. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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