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1. Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you).
5. An informal term for a father.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
16. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
17. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
18. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
19. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
20. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
21. God of love and erotic desire.
22. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
23. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
24. Civet of Madagascar.
27. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
29. An informal conversation.
30. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
33. Slightly open.
35. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
37. A town in north central Oklahoma.
38. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
41. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
42. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
43. Make off with belongings of others.
45. A visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance.
47. A shop selling delicatessen (as salads or cooked meats).
50. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
51. Gone by.
52. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
56. Type genus of the Amiidae.
57. A scented lozenge used to sweeten the breath (e.g. to conceal the odor of tobacco).
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
62. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
63. Any plant of the genus Inula.
64. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
66. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
67. A bachelor's degree in literature.
69. A radioactive transuranic element.
71. Type genus of the Anatidae.
72. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
73. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
75. Half the width of an em.
78. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
79. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
81. The cry made by sheep.
82. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
85. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
86. The capital city of Vietnam.
89. 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.
93. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
95. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
97. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
98. A master's degree in business.
99. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
101. A Russian river.
103. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
104. The fatty flesh of eel.
105. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
106. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
107. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
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1. A shaped mass of baked bread.
2. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
3. (in boxing) The act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily.
4. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
5. A member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley.
6. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
7. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
9. Call upon in supplication.
10. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
11. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
12. The sign language used in the United States.
13. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
14. The content of cognition.
15. Family based on male descent.
25. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
26. English essayist (1775-1834).
28. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
31. Free from evil or guilt.
32. Of or pertaining to the adrenal glands or their secretions.
34. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
36. A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity.
39. An antifungal agent usually administered in the form of a nitrate (trade name Monistat).
40. A formal exposition.
44. Salt pork from the back of a hog carcass.
46. Flesh of pompano.
48. The scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting).
49. Short and fat.
53. The longest division of geological time.
54. A sport in which participants must travel on skis.
55. Lie adjacent to another.
58. Sect of Orthodox Jews who follow the Mosaic Law strictly.
60. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
65. Small genus of delicate mossy bog plants having white or violet flowers.
68. On the side away from the wind.
69. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.
70. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
71. The sign language used in the United States.
74. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
76. Reports of the work of a society or learned body etc.
77. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
80. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
83. A French abbot.
84. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
87. A state in northwestern North America.
88. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
90. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
91. Common Indian weaverbird.
92. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
94. A unit of pressure.
95. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
96. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
100. An associate degree in nursing.
102. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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