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1. An informal term for a father.
4. Cause to be embarrassed.
9. A painful sore with a hard pus-filled core.
13. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
16. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
17. Dried plum v 1.
18. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
19. A branch of the Tai languages.
20. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
21. Something hard to endure.
22. The act of scanning.
23. (British) Your grandmother.
24. (informal) Very tired.
26. A state in southeastern United States.
28. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
29. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. Mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus.
32. Young sheep.
34. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
36. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
39. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
42. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
46. (Babylonian) Any of a group of powerful earth spirits or genii.
49. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
50. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
53. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
54. A heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects).
56. A mining town in southern Wales.
58. A drug (trade name Zyloprim) used to treat gout and other conditions in which there is an excessive buildup of uric acid.
61. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
62. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
63. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
64. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
65. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
66. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
68. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
70. The inner sole of a shoe or boot.
73. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
75. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
77. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
81. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
85. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
91. In 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants.
92. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
93. Any oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents.
94. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
95. A port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea.
98. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
99. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
100. (medieval legends) The nephew of King Mark of Cornwall who fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other.
101. Great merriment.
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1. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
2. True firs.
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. The month following March and preceding May.
5. Army unit smaller than a division.
6. A long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes.
7. Offensively curious or inquisitive.
8. A German man.
9. An oil port in southern Iraq.
10. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
11. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
12. A Russian river.
13. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
14. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
15. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
25. A localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground.
27. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
29. A city in southeastern Spain.
31. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
38. A city in north central Mexico.
40. A colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis.
41. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
43. Regarded with admiration.
44. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. The inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone.
48. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
51. Social insect living in organized colonies.
52. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
55. A sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains.
57. Border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug).
59. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
60. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
67. Loss of the ability to swallow.
68. The month following March and preceding May.
69. Framework for holding objects.
71. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
72. The time between occurrences of a repeating event.
73. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
74. A state in midwestern United States.
76. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
77. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
78. 100 aurar equal 1 krona.
79. (in Indian English) The number that is represented as a one followed by 7 zeros.
80. An extreme state of adversity.
81. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
82. Cactus having yellow flowers and purple fruits.
83. A social division of (usually preliterate) people.
84. Give qualities or abilities to.
86. A humorous anecdote or remark.
87. The sixth month of the civil year.
88. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
89. Interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by dint of'.
90. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
96. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
97. Before noon.
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