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1. An informal term for a father.
4. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
9. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
13. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. State of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior.
18. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
19. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
20. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
22. Italian Benedictine monk who was archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109.
24. Step on it.
25. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
26. A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person).
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
31. God of death.
34. Raise to a higher energy level.
38. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
43. A selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor commonly prescribed as an antidepressant (trade name Prozac).
44. Having branches.
46. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
48. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
49. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
50. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
52. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
53. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
55. The Teutonic god of thunder.
57. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
60. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
62. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
63. Moving quickly and lightly.
64. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
66. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
68. Point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch).
72. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
73. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
75. A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.
77. 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.
79. That can be given a date.
83. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
86. A country on the northeastern coast of Central America on the Caribbean.
89. A series of things depending on each other as if linked together.
90. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
93. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
95. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
96. The basic unit of money in Albania.
97. Wood of a sumac.
98. A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
99. Used of a single unit or thing.
100. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
101. Showing deterioration from age.
102. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
103. A boy or man.
104. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
3. A small quantity of liquid.
4. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
5. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
6. A disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches.
7. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
8. An iconic mental representation.
9. Relating to abdominal delivery.
10. A segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene.
11. Any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers.
12. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
13. A landlocked federal republic in central Europe.
14. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
15. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
21. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
23. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
27. One or more large merchant ships.
30. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
32. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
33. The beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome.
35. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
36. A person who lacks good judgment.
37. New Guinea echidnas.
39. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
40. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
41. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
42. Gull family.
45. Hoop that covers a wheel.
47. A doctor's degree in religion.
51. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
54. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
56. Wool of the alpaca.
58. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
59. Deliver by singing.
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
65. The academic world.
67. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
69. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
70. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
71. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
74. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
76. Cut or impressed into a surface.
78. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
79. How long something has existed.
80. Obvious and dull.
81. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
82. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
84. In bed.
85. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
87. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
88. (Middle East) An ornamental metal cup-shaped holder for a hot coffee cup.
89. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
91. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
92. A groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels).
94. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
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