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1. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
4. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
9. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
13. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
17. Run away secretly with one's beloved.
18. United States composer of musical comedies (1885-1945).
19. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
20. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
23. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
24. (botany) Divided into two lobes.
26. Genus of prickly shrubs and small trees of the Caribbean region.
27. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
29. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
30. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
33. Come to pass.
35. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
38. Pertaining to dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit.
43. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
45. Aroused to impatience or anger.
47. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
48. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
49. The edible flesh of any of various crabs.
51. A primeval personification of air and breath.
52. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
53. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
55. Start abruptly.
56. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
57. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
59. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
62. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
63. A tortilla chip topped with cheese and chili-pepper and broiled.
65. A port city in southwestern Iran.
67. Of or like a cecum.
69. A carriage consisting of two wheels and calash top.
71. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
72. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
74. An informal term for a father.
77. A doctor's degree in religion.
79. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
83. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
85. Any ameba of the genus Endamoeba.
89. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
92. Relatively low in price or charging low prices.
94. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
95. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
97. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
98. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
99. (music) A notation written at the beginning or end of a passage that is to be repeated.
102. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
103. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
104. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
105. Divulge information or secrets.
106. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
107. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
3. The square of a body of any size of type.
4. Horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window.
5. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
6. Suggesting an unhealthy mental state.
7. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
8. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
9. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
10. Testacean rhizopods.
11. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
12. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
13. The capital of Western Samoa.
14. A quantity of no importance.
15. By bad luck.
21. 1 species.
22. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
25. (a dated Briticism) A serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced.
28. A dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot.
31. A manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer.
32. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
34. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
36. A bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases.
37. Of or relating to or resembling a lobule.
39. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
40. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
41. Diverge from the expected.
42. A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff.
44. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
46. Made difficult or slow.
50. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
54. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
58. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
60. A town in north central Oklahoma.
61. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
64. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
66. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
68. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
70. Free from risk or danger.
73. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
75. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
76. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
78. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
80. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
81. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
82. Type genus of the Gavidae.
84. Having been read.
86. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
87. A state in New England.
88. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
90. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
91. A small cake leavened with yeast.
93. A unit of pressure.
96. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
100. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
101. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
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