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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
9. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
13. The cry made by sheep.
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ.
18. Common Indian weaverbird.
19. The sign language used in the United States.
20. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
21. Italian painter (born in Greece) whose deep shadows and barren landscapes strongly influenced the surrealists (1888-1978).
23. Having a squat and fleshy build.
25. Bourbon with bitters and Pernod and sugar served with lemon peel.
27. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
29. Type genus of the Ranidae.
30. Earlier a god.
31. A state in southeastern United States.
32. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
34. (slang) A batch of things that go together.
39. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
40. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
46. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
49. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
50. Constituting or relating to a tail.
52. A sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey.
54. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
55. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
59. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
60. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
61. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
62. A shoe with a wedge heel.
64. Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something.
66. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
68. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. Turn pale, as if in fear.
73. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
76. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
78. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
81. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
87. A Hindu prince or king in India.
89. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc..
90. With ease.
92. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
93. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
94. Avatar of Vishnu.
96. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
97. Being one more than two.
98. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
99. Using speech rather than writing.
100. A city in northwestern Syria.
101. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
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1. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. Brittle flat bread eaten at Passover.
4. Grow by addition, as of capital.
5. A great raja.
6. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
7. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
8. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
9. A slender double-reed instrument.
10. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
11. A punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text.
12. The chance to speak.
13. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
14. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
15. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
22. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
24. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
26. Intravenous beta blocker (trade name Brevibloc) that acts for only a short time.
28. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. French postimpressionist painter who influenced modern art (especially cubism) by stressing the structural components latent in nature (1839-1906).
36. Having or showing or conforming to good taste.
37. Genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs.
38. A person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies.
41. Any small compartment.
42. (botany) Of some seeds.
43. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
47. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
48. Half the width of an em.
51. Goddess of war.
53. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
56. Offering fun and gaiety.
57. The compass point that is one point north of northwest.
58. An autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea.
63. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
65. German engineer and automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal combustion engine (1834-1900).
66. Grow by addition, as of capital.
67. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
70. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
72. (anatomy) Of or relating to a cavity or chamber in the body (especially one of the upper chambers of the heart).
74. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
75. A republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola.
77. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
79. A genus of Platalea.
80. Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis.
82. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
83. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
84. A state in the eastern United States.
85. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
86. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
88. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
91. Informal terms for the mouth.
95. Informal terms for a mother.
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