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1. A branch of the Tai languages.
4. Treated with some kind of application.
9. A musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it.
13. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
16. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
17. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
18. A Loloish language.
19. A column of light (as from a beacon).
20. A genus of Psittacidae.
22. Spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun.
24. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
25. Squash bugs.
26. A city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
28. A reddish brown dye used especially on hair.
30. Prostrate woody South American herb with white tubular flowers often tinged with blue or rose.
32. Someone who writes comic material for public performers.
34. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
36. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
38. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
39. (Hinduism or Buddhism) A sacred word or syllable repeated in prayer or meditation.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. A town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
48. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
50. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
52. A woman of refinement.
53. Bony fishes of the southern hemisphere that breathe by a modified air bladder as well as gills.
57. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
58. A piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food.
59. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
60. Less than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
61. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
62. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
65. A city in Veneto.
67. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
69. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
71. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
73. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
76. Make less active or intense.
80. A Loloish language.
81. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
83. (of music) Characteristic of rural life.
85. 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.
89. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
90. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
93. An accountant certified by the state.
94. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
95. The capital and largest city of Japan.
97. Not easy.
99. A strong emotion.
100. An audiotape recording of sound.
101. A movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing.
102. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
103. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
3. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
4. Deprive of freedom.
5. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
6. The usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant.
7. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
8. Make a break in.
9. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
10. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
11. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
12. An implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish.
13. Wild geese.
14. American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1731-1814).
15. (trademark) A thin polyester film.
21. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
23. A polysaccharide produced in basophils (especially in the lung and liver) and that inhibit the activity of thrombin in coagulation of the blood.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification.
31. Flat and uninspiring.
33. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
35. A peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea.
37. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
40. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
42. United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969).
43. Narrow platform.
45. (of animals) Fully developed.
46. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
47. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
49. Make reference to.
51. Ground snakes.
54. An isogram connecting points receiving equal amounts of sunshine.
55. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
56. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
63. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
64. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
66. Wool of the alpaca.
68. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
70. A town in northern Egypt.
71. An implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish.
72. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
74. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
75. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
77. English monk and scholar (672-735).
78. The superior of an abbey of monks.
79. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
82. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
83. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
84. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
86. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
87. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
88. Clarified butter used in Indian cookery.
91. Automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system.
92. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
96. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
98. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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