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1. A police officer who investigates crimes.
4. American dwarf fan palms.
9. Very dark black.
13. Adult female chicken.
16. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
17. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
18. A low heavy horsecart without sides.
19. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
20. A humorous play on words.
21. A riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing).
22. A genus of Mustelidae.
23. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
24. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
26. (heraldry) Rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile.
27. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
29. Lying toward or situated in the east.
31. National capital of Kiribati.
33. A wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip.
36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
40. A meter for measuring electrical resistance in ohms.
43. 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.
44. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
45. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
46. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
49. Take away the weapons from.
52. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
53. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
54. A natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea).
57. Botfly larva.
58. Used in combination.
60. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers.
65. The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient).
66. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
68. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
70. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
71. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and a progestin compound.
74. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
76. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
79. Jordan's port.
81. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
85. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
86. A group of southern Bantu languages.
89. A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.
91. The cry made by sheep.
92. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
93. A leading German painter and engraver of the Renaissance (1471-1528).
94. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.
95. A container.
96. God of the earth.
97. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
98. Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal.
99. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
100. Informal terms for a mother.
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1. An oral poliovirus vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis.
2. The twelfth month of the civil year.
3. The basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the System International d'Unites.
4. An enclosed space.
5. Termination of pregnancy.
6. Ask for or request earnestly.
7. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
8. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
9. Order of mammals having few or no teeth including.
10. Army unit smaller than a division.
11. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
12. City in Sudan.
13. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
14. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
15. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
25. Steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs.
28. Cause to become awake or conscious.
30. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
32. Read anew.
34. German statesman.
35. Jutting or overhanging.
37. Genus of tropical shrubs or vines having pinnate leaves and large axillary flowers.
38. (Welsh) The farmer god.
41. Of or relating to or characteristic of Milan or its people.
42. Serving to set in motion.
47. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
48. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
50. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
51. Trade name of a drug rich in iron.
55. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
56. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
59. The friend of Phintias who pledged his life that Phintias would return (4th century BC).
61. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
62. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
67. (Turkey) Parched crushed wheat.
69. A slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription.
70. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
72. Any of numerous showy orchids of the genus Vanda having many large flowers in loose racemes.
73. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
75. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
76. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
77. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
78. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
80. A bachelor's degree in library science.
82. A French abbot.
83. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
84. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
87. Goddess of fate.
88. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
90. A disease of poultry.
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