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1. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
4. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
8. In bed.
12. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
16. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
17. A beautiful and graceful girl.
18. Avatar of Vishnu.
19. A Spanish river.
20. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
21. A country north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea.
23. Any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles.
25. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
27. In an extreme degree.
29. Any cycad of the genus Dioon.
30. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
31. Corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (Southern).
33. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
36. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
37. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
38. Being nine more than ninety.
39. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
45. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
47. A grant made by a law court.
50. Any of various small biting flies.
51. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
53. The face or front of a building.
55. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
56. An inactive volcano in the Andes in southern Colombia.
58. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
59. A town in western Washington.
62. Presence of abnormal amounts of uric acid salts in the blood.
64. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
65. Antihypertensive drug (trade name Minipress).
68. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
69. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
70. That is to say.
71. Squash bugs.
72. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
73. Type genus of the family Ascaridae.
76. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
78. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
81. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
84. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
88. A lack of vitality.
91. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
93. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
94. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
95. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
97. A feeling of intense anger.
98. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
99. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
100. Administer an oil or ointment to.
101. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
102. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
2. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
3. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
4. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
5. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
6. A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface.
7. Type genus of the Sittidae.
8. A particular environment or walk of life.
9. South African term for `boss'.
10. The square of a body of any size of type.
11. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
12. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
13. In a foreign country.
14. Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime.
15. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
22. Someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication.
24. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
26. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. An enclosed space.
34. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
35. A city in southeastern Sicily that was founded by Corinthians in the 8th century BC.
40. A body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral.
41. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. A Brazilian river.
44. Aromatic Eurasian perennial.
46. Photographic equipment consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other.
48. Influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804).
49. Covered with paving material.
52. South American cavy.
54. Of or in or belonging to the cavity of the abdomen.
57. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
60. Having branches.
61. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
63. Type genus of the Anatidae.
66. Of or relating to or characteristic of Zaire or its people.
67. The beginning or early stages.
74. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
75. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
77. Sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat) section or component of something.
79. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
80. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
82. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
83. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
85. A quantity of no importance.
86. Very dark black.
87. An informal term for a father.
89. An electrically charged particle.
90. Used of a single unit or thing.
92. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
96. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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