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1. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
4. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
8. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
12. At a specific prior time.
16. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
17. The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.
18. Fallow deer.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
20. A large number of things or people considered together.
22. Found pleasant or attractive.
24. Excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted.
25. In a competent capable manner.
26. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
27. Not treated with lead.
29. Unknown god.
31. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
33. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
34. Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions.
37. A unit of length equal to 1760 yards.
41. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
42. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
44. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
46. An Indic language.
48. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
50. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
51. First in rank or degree.
52. Colloquial British abbreviation.
55. The body excluding the head and neck and limbs.
57. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
61. English essayist (1775-1834).
63. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
64. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
66. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
67. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
68. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
71. A tributary of the Missouri River.
73. Island in West Indies.
75. A short film and commentary about current events.
78. Being nine more than forty.
79. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
80. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
81. A small amount of residue.
83. Cheeselike food made of curdled soybean milk.
85. Of or pertaining to the Avesta (sacred text of Zoroastrianism).
89. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter.
92. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
94. Having been made empty.
96. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
97. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
98. A water wheel with buckets attached to the rim.
100. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
102. A periodic paperback publication.
103. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
104. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
105. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
106. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
2. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
3. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
4. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
5. A state in midwestern United States.
6. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
7. A large and noisy party of people.
8. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
9. A city in Veneto.
10. The square of a body of any size of type.
11. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
12. Small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs.
13. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
14. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
15. A condition requiring relief.
21. English prelate and statesman.
23. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
28. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
30. Having winglike extensions.
32. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
35. A city in the northern panhandle of Texas.
36. Italian poet (1569-1625).
38. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
39. A midwestern state in central United States.
40. (physiology) Of nerves and nerve impulses.
43. Before noon.
45. Having short a smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum.
47. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
49. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
53. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
54. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
56. Defeat (oneself) by going too far.
58. Shrubby plant with aromatic grayish-green leaves used as a cooking herb.
59. Family based on male descent.
60. Wearing footgear.
62. Wild ginger.
65. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. A lack of vitality.
72. A large mass of ice floating at sea.
74. Having two faces or fronts.
76. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia.
77. A unit of power equal to 1 joule per second.
82. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
83. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
84. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
86. A word that serves as the predicate of a sentence.
87. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
88. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
90. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
91. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
93. (Babylonian) The sky god.
95. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
99. In operation or operational.
101. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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