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1. The airforce of Great Britain.
4. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
9. Something that remunerates.
13. Inquire about.
16. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
17. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
18. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
21. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
22. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
23. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
24. Type genus of the Amiidae.
26. Plant cultivated for its enlarged fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem.
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. The small projection of a mammary gland.
32. Nonresinous wood of a fir tree.
34. A bar of sand.
37. Lack of strength or vigor esp from illness.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
43. Being nine more than ninety.
44. North American rat snakes.
48. American civil rights worker in Mississippi.
49. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
51. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
52. A painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table.
53. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
54. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
56. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
57. The quality of being so overabundant that prices fall.
58. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
59. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
60. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
62. A sudden unexpected piece of good fortune.
65. Having only superficial plausibility.
67. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
69. Developed or executed with care and in minute detail.
71. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
74. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
78. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
79. Jordan's port.
80. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
83. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
87. Type genus of the Musaceae.
91. The basic unit of money in China.
92. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
94. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
96. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
97. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
98. (used to introduce a logical conclusion) From that fact or reason or as a result.
99. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
100. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
101. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
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1. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
2. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
3. Of or relating to Fabianism.
4. Goddess of fate.
5. A derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women.
6. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
7. Being one more than seven.
8. Administer an oil or ointment to.
9. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
10. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
11. Turn into gas.
12. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
13. A city in northern India.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. God of love and erotic desire.
25. Give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985).
30. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
33. Unable to move or resist motion.
35. The dilated portion of a canal or duct especially of the semicircular canals of the ear.
36. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
38. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
39. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages.
40. A man of great strength or bravery.
41. Confidently declared to be so.
45. A basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression).
46. A mite of the genus Acarus.
47. Having the power to influence or convince.
50. Expel gas from the stomach.
55. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
61. Jordan's port.
63. The event of dying or departure from life.
64. A building where birds are kept.
66. Extremely pleasing.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
70. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
72. Well matched.
73. An oil port in southern Iraq.
75. Of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times.
76. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
77. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
81. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
82. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
84. Remove from office.
85. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
86. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
88. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
89. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
90. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
93. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
95. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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