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1. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
5. The compass point that is one point south of southeast.
9. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust.
13. An accountant certified by the state.
16. The twelfth month of the civil year.
17. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
18. The sixth month of the civil year.
19. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
20. A cape at the southern tip of Norway.
21. A low dam built across a stream to raise its level or divert its flow.
22. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
23. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
24. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
26. A bad-tempered person.
28. (usually plural) A destructive action.
30. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
31. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
33. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
35. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
37. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
40. Similar or related in quality or character.
43. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
46. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
47. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
48. Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages.
49. The wool of the vicuna.
51. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
53. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
54. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
56. (Norse mythology) The primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world.
57. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
60. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
62. Used of a single unit or thing.
63. The largest city of China.
65. A receptacle for the ash from smokers' cigars or cigarettes.
67. A genus of Mustelidae.
68. The act of escaping physically.
71. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
72. (computer science) A secondary menu that appears while you are holding the cursor over an item on the primary menu.
76. Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.
79. Present reasons and arguments.
81. Of or relating to or characteristic of Swaziland or its people or their language.
82. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
87. Of or relating to the Chinese people or their language or culture.
90. A city in south central Mexico (southeast of Mexico City) on the edge of central Mexican plateau.
92. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
93. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
94. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
96. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
97. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
98. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
99. Full of flavor.
100. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
101. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
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1. A seaport in northwestern Italy.
2. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
3. A friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind.
4. Hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas.
5. The compass point that is one point west of due south.
6. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
7. (in Scotland) A child.
8. A gesture involving the shoulders.
9. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
10. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
11. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
12. Of or relating to or involving an area.
13. A bottle with a stopper.
14. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
15. The highest level or degree attainable.
25. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
27. Of or relating to Mexico or its inhabitants.
29. Spread negative information about.
32. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
34. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
36. Of a pale to moderate grayish violet color n.
38. A republic in northeastern South America on the Atlantic.
39. (combining form) Having stories as indicated.
41. Tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea.
42. An insect or other arthropod between molts.
44. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
45. (Roman mythology) A princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage.
50. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
52. Without moral standards or principles.
55. An unwholesome atmosphere.
58. A Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings.
59. 1/10 gram.
61. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
64. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
66. An evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia.
69. Extinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head.
70. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
73. Inflammation of the gums.
74. Small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie.
75. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
77. Two times.
78. Japanese architect (born in 1913).
80. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
83. Offering fun and gaiety.
84. Characteristic of false pride.
85. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
86. Beside one another in a row or rank.
88. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
89. A tight-fitting headdress.
91. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
95. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
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