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1. 10 grams.
4. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
9. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
13. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
16. Gone by.
17. A formal expression of praise.
18. Pulled or drawn tight.
19. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
20. A breeding ground for herons.
22. Relating to or having the characteristics on an icon.
24. A young woman making her debut into society.
25. (of panes of glass) Fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead.
28. Being three more than fifty.
29. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
30. Of or relating to or near the nares.
32. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
34. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
37. Relating to the Urdu language.
39. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Carolinas.
44. A genus of Laridae.
48. A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind.
50. A flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery).
51. An advantageous purchase.
52. A local computer network for communication between computers.
53. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
55. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
56. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
58. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
59. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
60. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
61. (Brit) Someone who assesses the monetary worth of possessions.
63. A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.
66. The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.
67. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
70. Type genus of the Majidae.
71. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
72. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
73. A deep bow.
76. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
79. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
81. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
85. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
87. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
88. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
89. A decree that prohibits something.
90. Of or pertaining to the adrenal glands or their secretions.
94. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
95. Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
96. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
98. The sound made by a cow or bull.
99. A doctor's degree in education.
100. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
101. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
102. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
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1. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
2. American novelist (1909-1955).
3. Small goat antelope with small conical horns.
4. Of or relating to apnea.
5. Of or relating to the heart.
6. Serving as an essential component.
7. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
8. A town in north central Oklahoma.
9. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
10. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
11. A geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam.
12. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
13. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
14. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
15. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
21. Unequivocally detestable.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. A mental representation of some haunting experience.
31. Affected manners intended to impress others.
33. A large ax with a broad cutting blade.
35. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
36. A great raja.
38. A mountain in south central Alaska.
40. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
41. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
42. A battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809).
43. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
45. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
46. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
47. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
49. Footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material.
54. A nation in northern North America.
57. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
62. Have confidence or faith in.
64. Tall tufted perennial tropical American grass naturalized as pasture and forage grass in southern United States.
65. Somewhat late.
68. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
69. Genus of American of east Asian perennial herbs with yellow to orange or red flower rays.
70. A town in north central Oklahoma.
74. A large fleet.
75. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
77. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
78. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
80. A master's degree in business.
82. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
83. A negatively charged atom.
84. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position.
86. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
87. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
91. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
92. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
93. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
97. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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