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1. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
5. A speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels).
13. Perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere.
17. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
18. Avitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1).
19. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
20. A linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons.
22. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
24. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
26. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
27. To fix or set securely or deeply.
28. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
30. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
38. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
40. Obvious and dull.
44. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
52. A sheltered and secluded place.
54. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
56. A clergyman.
58. A negatively charged atom.
59. Of or relating to or involving an area.
60. God of the underworld and judge of the dead.
61. A shape that sags.
62. A fabric woven with lisle thread.
63. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
64. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
68. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
70. An English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718).
72. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
74. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
75. Before noon.
77. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
81. 1,000 baiza equal 1 riyal-omani.
84. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
86. A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
87. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
88. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
91. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
93. The seventh and last day of the week.
94. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
95. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
96. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
97. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
98. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
99. Again but in a new or different way.
100. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
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1. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
2. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
3. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
4. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
5. A Russian river.
6. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
7. Of or containing iridium.
8. Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.
9. A French abbot.
10. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
11. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
12. Being one more than fifty.
13. A man who serves as a sailor.
14. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
15. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
16. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
21. Decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. The area for food preparation on a ship.
36. Sharply exact or accurate or delimited.
37. The shore of a sea or ocean.
39. Continuing forever or indefinitely.
41. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
42. Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858).
43. Large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits.
45. Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water.
46. Designated by a name or title.
49. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
50. Make less active or intense.
51. Little known Kamarupan languages.
53. A member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia.
55. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
57. Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance.
65. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
66. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
67. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
69. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
71. A card game for 2 players.
73. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
76. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
77. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
78. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
79. A surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity.
80. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
82. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
83. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
85. English writer (1925-1994).
89. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
90. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
92. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
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