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1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
9. A French abbot.
13. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. A city in north central Nigeria.
18. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. The shape of a bell.
22. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
24. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
25. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
26. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
28. Half the width of an em.
30. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
32. Meat from a domestic hog or pig.
34. The capital and largest city of Japan.
35. United States baseball player (born in 1920).
37. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
39. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
43. An associate degree in nursing.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
48. Kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting.
49. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
51. A county in southwestern England on the Bristol Channel.
53. Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root.
54. Type genus of the Nepidae.
55. A small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral.
56. 1 conto equals 1,000 escudos.
57. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
59. Remove from memory or existence.
61. Provide with clothes or put clothes on.
62. A crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins.
65. A salt or ester of vanadic acid.
69. Wife of Ramachandra.
70. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
73. Of or relating to Chios.
74. Be teeming, be abuzz.
75. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
78. A friendly nation.
79. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
81. Softly bright or radiant.
83. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
86. A scented lozenge used to sweeten the breath (e.g. to conceal the odor of tobacco).
88. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
92. Express strong disapproval of.
95. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
97. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
98. An informal debt instrument.
99. A city in southeastern South Korea.
101. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
102. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
103. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
104. A machine or person that adds.
105. A small cake leavened with yeast.
106. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
4. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
5. A decree that prohibits something.
6. Toward the mouth or oral region.
7. An expression of greeting.
8. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
9. The residue that remains when something is burned.
10. Having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky.
11. A knight honored for valor.
12. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
13. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
14. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
15. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
21. A small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell.
23. A place where the wicked are punished after death.
27. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
29. Small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire.
31. People having the same social or economic status.
33. The third month of the civil year.
36. Be or form the base for.
38. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
40. A medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck.
41. Practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages.
42. The process of an individual organism growing organically.
45. A game played with young children.
46. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
50. A narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative.
52. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
58. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
60. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
63. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
64. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
66. A river in central Brazil that flows generally northward (with many falls) to join the Tocantins River.
67. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
68. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
71. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
72. Go with, fall together.
76. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
77. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
80. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
82. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
84. Representation of the cross on which Jesus died.
85. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
87. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
89. A female domestic.
90. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
91. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
93. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
94. (informal) Roused to anger.
96. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
100. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
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