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1. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
4. A European river.
9. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
13. A castrated tomcat.
16. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
17. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
18. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
19. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
20. American Revolutionary patriot.
22. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
24. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
25. The cry made by sheep.
26. The striking of one body against another.
28. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
30. Genus of low-growing mat-forming New Zealand plants.
33. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
35. 1 species.
42. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
43. Regional and archaic.
46. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Reticulum and Pictor.
47. A bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt.
50. The basic unit of money in Angola.
52. A Loloish language.
53. Pouch used in the shipment of mail.
55. A European river.
58. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
60. Cause to feel relaxed.
62. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
63. In some classifications considered a genus of subfamily Melinae.
65. Type genus of the Ranidae.
68. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
69. A formal association of people with similar interests.
76. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
78. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
80. A White Protestant of Anglo-Saxon ancestry.
84. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
86. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
88. (informal) Of the highest quality.
89. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
93. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
94. A city in southeastern South Korea.
95. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
97. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
98. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
99. English psychologist who collaborated with I. A. Richards in designing Basic English (1889-1957).
100. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
101. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
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1. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
2. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
3. A sudden very loud noise.
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of Tuscany or its people.
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. Athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training.
7. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
8. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
9. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
10. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
11. Used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles.
12. An associate degree in applied science.
13. A desert in central Asia.
14. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
15. (informal) Exceptionally good.
21. God of death.
23. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
27. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.
29. The size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves.
31. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
32. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves.
34. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
36. A long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy.
37. The second largest of the Hawaiian Islands.
38. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
39. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
40. Excellent and delightful in all respects.
41. With much noise or loud and unpleasant sound.
44. Absent without permission.
45. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
48. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
49. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
51. A lustrous gray strong metallic element resembling titanium.
54. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
56. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
57. A narrow way or road.
61. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
64. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
66. A small drink of liquor.
67. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
70. The unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container.
71. Being one more than one hundred.
72. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
73. A small cake leavened with yeast.
74. A port city in southwestern Iran.
75. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
77. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
79. A program that is broadcast again.
81. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
82. Big-eyed scad.
83. A military trainee (as at a military academy).
85. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
87. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
90. A flexible container with a single opening.
91. Any federal law-enforcement officer.
92. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
96. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
97. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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