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1. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
4. First in order of importance.
9. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
13. The month following March and preceding May.
16. How long something has existed.
17. A thick sweet sticky liquid.
18. God of love and erotic desire.
19. Liquid excretory product.
20. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
22. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
24. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
26. Muslim name for God.
27. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
28. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
29. A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
30. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
34. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
35. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
37. Top part of an apron.
38. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
41. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
43. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. A man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength.
51. A large fleet.
53. Characterized by dignity and propriety.
54. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
55. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
56. European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors.
57. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
58. A piece of land held under the feudal system.
59. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
63. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
64. (music) Characterized by avoidance of traditional Western tonality.
65. Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century).
66. The use of dye to change the color of something permanently.
70. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
72. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
76. The mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations.
81. Roman scholar (116-27 BC).
82. Type genus of the Gavidae.
87. Disposed to please.
90. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
92. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
93. In or of the present month.
94. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
96. A beautiful and graceful girl.
97. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
98. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
99. A city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan.
100. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
101. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
2. Moving quickly and lightly.
3. Common black European thrush.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
5. Being one more than fifty.
6. (Greek mythology) The last king of Troy.
7. A member of a European light cavalry unit.
8. A short pithy instructive saying.
9. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
10. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
11. Before noon.
12. A sudden short attack.
13. With rapid movements.
14. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
15. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
21. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
23. The cry made by sheep.
25. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
39. (formal) By means of this.
40. Having a melody (as distinguished from recitative).
42. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
44. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
45. Obvious and dull.
47. Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968).
48. A simple protein containing mainly basic amino acids.
49. Of or pertaining to the adrenal glands or their secretions.
52. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
60. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
61. A boy or man.
62. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
67. To say or state again.
68. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
69. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
71. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
73. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
74. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
75. Exultantly proud and joyful.
77. A genus of Lamnidae.
78. Grain intended to be or that has been ground.
79. Not plain.
80. A rye bread made with molasses or brown sugar.
81. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
83. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
84. Very fertile.
85. Look at with amorous intentions.
86. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
88. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise.
89. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
90. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
91. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
95. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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