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1. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
4. A crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat).
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. The compass point that is one point west of due south.
16. The second day of the week.
17. Squash bugs.
18. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
19. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
20. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
21. United States food manufacturer who (with his brother) developed a breakfast cereal of crisp flakes of rolled and toasted wheat and corn.
23. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
25. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
27. Misery resulting from affliction.
28. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
30. Immediately past.
31. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
33. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
34. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
35. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
38. (of eggs) No longer edible.
40. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
43. A great raja.
46. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
50. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
51. (archaic) Of persons.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
53. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
54. A fastener for a door or lid.
57. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
58. (British) Your grandmother.
60. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
64. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
66. A period of 10 years.
67. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
68. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
70. A ceremonial dinner party for many people.
71. A doctor's degree in religion.
72. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
74. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
77. A state in New England.
78. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
82. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
89. (informal) Of the highest quality.
90. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
94. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
95. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
96. (British abbreviation) "he accepted it on appro".
97. A fraudulent business scheme.
98. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
99. A doctor's degree in education.
100. (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) Optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light.
101. Type genus of the Majidae.
102. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
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1. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
2. Spanish poet and dramatist (1898-1936).
3. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
4. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
5. Again but in a new or different way.
6. The qualities of a hero or heroine.
7. A small island.
8. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
9. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
10. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
11. Cheese containing a blue mold.
12. A resource.
13. Disposed of as useless.
14. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
15. United States painter (born in 1917).
22. French film maker influenced by surrealism.
24. Submerged freshwater perennials.
26. Without offspring.
29. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
32. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
36. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
37. A colorless poisonous gas that smells like new-mown hay.
39. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
41. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
42. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
44. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
45. Wool of the alpaca.
47. Basic principles of the cosmos.
48. A large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas.
49. (psychology) Characterized by avoidance or withdrawal.
55. Advance evidence for.
56. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
61. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
62. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
63. Come out into view, as from concealment.
65. Type genus of the Vespidae.
69. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
73. Of or belonging to an aecium.
74. Not of long duration.
75. A public promotion of some product or service.
76. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
79. Cause to be embarrassed.
80. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
81. Lower in esteem.
83. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
84. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
85. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
86. A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
87. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
88. God of love and erotic desire.
91. An accountant certified by the state.
92. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
93. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
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