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1. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
4. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
9. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
13. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
17. An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event.
18. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
19. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
20. Antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns.
22. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
25. Make worse or less effective.
27. The dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa.
29. In bed.
30. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.
31. One of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
33. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
34. A battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC).
35. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
38. Being one more than one hundred.
40. A unit of power equal to 746 watts.
44. In operation or operational.
45. A city in southern Finland.
47. A gentle affectionate stroking (or something resembling it).
50. United States comedian and film actor (1896-1996).
52. Freed from bondage.
53. How much of something is available.
54. The outer layer of the Earth.
55. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
58. Seed of a pea plant.
59. Gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation.
62. The application of wallpaper.
65. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
66. A town in central Belgium.
69. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
70. A public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music.
71. Having leadership guidance.
73. (biology) Shed at an early stage of development.
74. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
79. Type genus of the Lycaenidae.
83. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
87. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
88. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
92. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
95. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
97. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
98. A trivial lie.
99. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
100. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
101. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
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1. Kindly endorsement and guidance.
2. Make a crunching noise, as of an engine lacking lubricants.
3. The capital of Nationalist China.
4. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
5. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
6. A doctor's degree in education.
7. To a severe or serious degree.
8. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
9. (informal) A stupid incompetent person.
10. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
11. The basic unit of money in Albania.
12. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
13. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
14. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
21. An excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth.
23. (Ovid) The Roman god of sleep and dreams.
24. Grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs.
26. Any of various small terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling.
28. The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet.
32. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
36. Having no intelligible meaning.
37. Not performed on the stage.
39. Of or relating to or characteristic of Israel or its people.
41. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
42. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
43. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
46. A common European bird of prey.
48. Hand shears for cutting sheet metal.
49. The ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail.
51. The basic unit of money in Indonesia.
56. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
57. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
60. Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog.
61. Love intensely.
63. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
64. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
67. The basic unit of money in Romania.
68. A doctor's degree in optometry.
72. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
75. An associate degree in nursing.
76. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
77. Squash bugs.
78. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
80. A sharply directional antenna.
81. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
82. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
84. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
85. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
86. Set down according to a plan.
89. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
90. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
91. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
93. A public promotion of some product or service.
94. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
96. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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