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1. The cry made by sheep.
4. From the kapok tree.
9. The noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine).
13. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
16. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
17. A feeling of self-respect and personal worth.
18. The sixth month of the civil year.
19. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
20. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
21. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
23. Edible viscera of a fowl.
25. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
27. Tropical plants.
29. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
30. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
32. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
34. 16 ounces.
35. A shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus).
40. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
43. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
46. Half the width of an em.
47. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
48. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
50. An organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment much changed from that in which it originated.
52. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
54. A state of anticipation of sexuality.
57. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
58. A mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text.
60. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
61. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
63. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
64. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
67. A state in New England.
69. East Indian annual erect herb.
70. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
72. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
74. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
75. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
76. Anything that provides inspiration for later work.
79. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
81. A member of the Dravidian people living in northern Bengal in eastern India.
84. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
88. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
89. Italian physicist after whom the volt is named.
92. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
93. A branch of the Tai languages.
94. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
95. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
96. British informal term.
97. Adult female chicken.
98. Gracefully slender.
99. Having relatively few calories.
100. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
3. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
4. The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
5. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
6. Type genus of the Pinaceae.
7. The probability of a specified outcome.
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. An elaborate representation of scenes from history etc.
10. A public promotion of some product or service.
11. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
12. (of persons) Neat and smart in appearance.
13. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
14. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
15. Stalk of a moss capsule.
22. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. Small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers.
26. A member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia.
28. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
31. An enclosed space.
33. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
36. Something or someone that causes anxiety.
37. A member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia.
38. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
39. Goat grass.
41. Having deserted a cause or principle.
42. A restricted computer network.
44. An administrative unit of government.
45. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
49. Spanish poet and dramatist (1898-1936).
51. A nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens.
53. (superlative of `near' or `nigh') Most near.
55. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
56. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
59. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
62. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
65. A cookout at the seashore where clams and fish and other foods are cooked--usually on heated stones covered with seaweed.
66. Acting according to certain accepted standards.
68. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
71. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Nalfon) used in the treatment of arthritis and other painful inflammatory disorders.
73. A reference point to shoot at.
74. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
77. Enthusiastic approval.
78. Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction.
80. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
81. The square of a body of any size of type.
82. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
83. Rounded like an egg.
85. A native American tent.
86. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
87. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
90. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
91. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
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