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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
5. A sudden very loud noise.
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
13. A unit of pressure.
16. Type genus of the Anatidae.
17. A desert in central Asia.
18. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
19. A branch of the Tai languages.
20. Affected manners intended to impress others.
21. A city in northeastern Egypt at the head of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern end of the Suez Canal.
22. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
23. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
24. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
26. A river in Nebraska that flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River.
28. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
29. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. Administer an oil or ointment to.
32. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
34. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
36. Informal terms for a mother.
37. An artificial language.
39. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
41. A dense winter fog containing ice particles.
43. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
47. Relating to or designed for or using the singing voice.
50. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
52. Flat tableland with steep edges.
53. In an acute manner.
57. The hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn.
58. God of wisdom or prophesy.
59. Lean end of the neck.
62. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
63. Of or pertaining to the Avesta (sacred text of Zoroastrianism).
64. A domain in which something is dominant.
66. God of war and sky.
67. A deep bow.
68. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
69. United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932).
72. Catch sight of.
73. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
74. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
75. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
79. Italian anatomist who was the first to use a microscope to study anatomy and was among the first to recognize cells in animals (1628-1694).
88. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
89. A nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal.
91. 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.
92. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
93. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
94. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
96. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
97. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
98. (Sumerian) God of the air and king of the Sumerian gods.
99. Activity directed toward making or doing something.
100. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
101. The square of a body of any size of type.
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1. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
2. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
3. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
4. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
5. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
6. Small magnifying glass (usually set in an eyepiece) used by jewelers and horologists.
7. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
8. Spanish explorer who conquered the Inca Empire in Peru and founded Lima (1475-1541).
9. Affecting an entire system.
10. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. Covered with paving material.
13. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
14. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
15. An atom having a valence of one.
25. Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down v 1.
27. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
29. Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises.
31. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
33. An associate degree in nursing.
35. Type genus of the Procaviidae.
38. Situated at an apex.
40. A group of 3 goddesses of destiny.
42. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
44. A period of 10 years.
45. Drug (trade name Isordil) used to treat angina pectoris and congestive heart failure.
46. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
48. Any shape that is triangular in cross section.
49. For fear that.
51. A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof.
54. The sacred city of Lamaism.
55. A language group of the Hokan family.
56. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
60. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
61. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
65. A dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin.
70. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
71. Large European marine food fish.
76. Found near the Channel Islands.
77. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
78. Squash bugs.
79. Used of a single unit or thing.
80. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
81. Made of or resembling lace.
82. The mother of your father or mother.
83. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
84. The basic unit of money in Peru.
85. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
86. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
87. God of love and erotic desire.
90. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
95. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
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