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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
9. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
13. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
16. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise.
17. Complacently or inanely foolish.
18. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
19. Not in good physical or mental health.
20. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
21. Brief and to the point.
22. Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit.
24. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
26. A unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold.
27. Great coolness and composure under strain.
28. Being one more than two.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
32. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
33. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
35. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
40. An informal term for a father.
41. The cry made by sheep.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
47. A Spanish river.
49. A Bantu language spoken in Angola.
52. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
53. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
55. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
56. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
58. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
59. Impose something unpleasant.
62. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
64. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
65. Dramatist of ancient Rome (born in Greece) whose comedies were based on works by Menander (190?-159 BC).
66. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
68. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
69. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
73. Showing courage.
75. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.
77. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
78. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
79. Being five more than one hundred fifty.
81. A formal association of people with similar interests.
83. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
88. A region of central Europe rich in deposits of coal and iron ore.
91. Jordan's port.
94. Some point in the air.
95. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
96. Hit hard.
98. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
100. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
101. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
102. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
103. The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
104. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
105. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
3. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
5. Type genus of the Anatidae.
6. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943).
7. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
8. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
9. A mischievous sprite of English folklore.
10. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
11. Wool of the alpaca.
12. Photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication.
13. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
14. Being of delicate or slender build.
15. Divulge information or secrets.
23. Cause to be more favorably inclined.
25. A young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men.
29. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
31. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
34. Of or relating to Gabon or its inhabitants.
36. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
37. Flemish painter of landscapes (1525-1569).
38. Relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon.
39. A person from whom you are descended.
42. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
44. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
48. The part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers.
50. The basic unit of length adopted under the System International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards).
51. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
54. Pearl oysters.
57. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
60. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
61. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
63. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
67. (Spanish) Saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken.
70. (of exocrine glands) Producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell.
71. Type genus of the Gavidae.
72. (trademark) A light plastic disk about 10 inches in diameter.
74. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
76. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
80. A projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water.
82. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
84. A Loloish language.
85. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
86. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
87. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
89. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
90. God of love and erotic desire.
92. An associate degree in applied science.
93. Enlarged prostate.
97. A radioactive transuranic element.
99. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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