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1. Considerate and solicitous care.
4. Any plant of the genus Erica.
9. Chief port of Yemen.
13. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. United States sculptor (born in 1924).
18. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
19. A police officer who investigates crimes.
20. A corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages.
22. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
23. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
25. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
26. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
28. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
29. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
32. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
34. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
36. Distant in either space or time.
42. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
44. From 135 million to 190 million years ago.
48. Offering fun and gaiety.
49. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
50. Kauri pine.
51. A mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high).
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. Type genus of the Caviidae.
55. Take in solid food.
56. Soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
59. Very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches.
62. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
63. Wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh.
64. In working order.
65. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
67. Genus of slender often treelike spiny cacti with solitary showy nocturnal white or pink flowers.
70. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
71. Igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface.
73. A primeval personification of air and breath.
74. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
75. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
76. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
78. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
86. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
90. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
92. Divulge information or secrets.
94. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
95. Being of the age 13 through 19.
96. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
97. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
98. Step on it.
99. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
100. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust.
101. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
102. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. Petty quarrel.
2. A Loloish language.
3. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
4. Avoid and stay away from deliberately.
5. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
6. An Eskimo hut.
7. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
8. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
9. Sour or bitter in taste.
10. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
11. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
12. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
13. A major god.
14. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
15. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
21. English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859).
24. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A Hindu prince or king in India.
31. British stateswoman.
33. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
35. The blade of a rotor (as in the compressor of a jet engine).
37. Of or relating to or characteristic of the former country of Yugoslavia or its people or languages.
38. Not final or absolute.
39. A person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died).
40. Trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits.
41. In the recent past.
43. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
45. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
46. Adopted in order to deceive.
47. A Hindu sect worshiping Shiva.
54. A non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH(2n+2).
57. (Assyrian) Chief god of the Assyrians.
58. Commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column.
60. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
61. A historic division of Ireland located in the northeastern part of the island.
66. The time between occurrences of a repeating event.
67. Avoid and stay away from deliberately.
68. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
69. That is to say.
72. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
77. A native-born Israeli.
79. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
80. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
81. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
82. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
83. God of love and erotic desire.
84. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
85. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
87. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
88. Characteristic of false pride.
89. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
91. A master's degree in library science.
93. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
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