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1. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
5. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
9. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
13. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
16. Brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall.
17. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
18. Blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly.
19. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. Italian painter (1696-1770).
22. A prolific German composer noted for his oratorios (1685-1759).
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
26. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
28. State in northeastern India.
30. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
31. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
33. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries.
39. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
42. 1 species.
46. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
47. American novelist (1909-1955).
48. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
50. God of the earth.
51. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
53. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
55. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
57. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
58. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
59. Left-hand page.
60. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
62. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
63. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
65. First in order of birth.
67. A rotund individual.
68. The compass point midway between north and west.
69. Male red deer.
71. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
72. Being nothing more than specified.
73. A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc.
76. At a previous time.
78. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
80. A genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae.
83. Any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules.
85. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
89. Extremely evil or cruel.
91. The cardinal number that is the sum of three and one.
93. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
94. Any of various small biting flies.
95. Fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment.
97. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
98. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
99. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
100. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
101. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
102. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. A theatrical performer.
2. The distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. Type genus of the Nepidae.
5. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
6. At or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other.
7. That is to say.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
10. A song that was formerly popular.
11. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
12. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
13. By bad luck.
14. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
15. A fraudulent business scheme.
21. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
23. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. A shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot.
32. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
34. United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery.
35. The fifth month of the civil year.
36. In bed.
37. The state of being split or cleft.
38. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
40. Inability to urinate.
41. A water-resistant coat.
43. Try to stir up public opinion.
44. Highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide.
45. Recite in elocution.
49. A member of a North American Indian people living on the California coast near Monterey.
52. Someone who rants and raves.
54. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
56. A particular environment or walk of life.
61. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
64. An inhabitant of the earth.
66. Not present.
68. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
70. The Magadhan language spoken by the Assamese people.
71. At or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other.
74. A Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s.
75. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
77. A typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system.
79. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
81. A fractional monetary unit of several countries.
82. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
84. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
86. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
87. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
88. A city in northern India.
90. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
92. A young woman making her debut into society.
96. Unknown god.
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