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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
9. The handle of a weapon or tool.
13. A flexible container with a single opening.
16. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
17. (often plural) A command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed.
18. English essayist (1775-1834).
19. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
20. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
21. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
22. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
23. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
24. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
26. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
28. Lower in esteem.
29. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. Type genus of the Anatidae.
32. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
35. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
37. Of inferior or mixed breed.
40. Moth whose larvae are flour moths.
45. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
46. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
48. Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.
51. Touched by rot or decay.
52. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
54. Spin or twist together so as to form a cord.
56. Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784).
57. (Greek mythology) The rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods.
58. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
59. A playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps.
60. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
61. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
63. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
65. An engineering university in Cambridge.
66. Informal terms.
69. The 3rd planet from the sun.
71. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
72. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
74. An affirmative.
75. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
76. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
77. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
79. Unknown god.
81. A short erect tail.
84. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
85. Enthusiastic approval.
88. Of or relating to the hands.
91. A dog small and tame enough to be held in the lap.
95. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
96. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
97. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
98. One of the players on the line of scrimmage.
102. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
103. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
104. God of love and erotic desire.
106. Being two more than fifty.
107. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
108. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
109. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
110. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
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1. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
2. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
3. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
4. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
5. A human limb.
6. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
7. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
8. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
9. Old World woody vines.
10. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
11. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
12. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
13. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
14. By bad luck.
15. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
25. Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955).
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. A baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head.
31. A white trivalent metallic element.
33. Be earlier in time.
34. The cry made by sheep.
36. (sometimes followed by `to') Applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique.
38. Employed in accomplishing something.
39. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
41. The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work.
42. Abnormally enlarged thyroid gland.
43. Whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood.
44. A musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance.
47. The capital of Switzerland.
49. Submerged freshwater perennials.
50. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
53. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
55. The act of carrying something v 1.
62. A decree that prohibits something.
64. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
67. Constitution of the human body.
68. The income arising from land or other property.
70. A sultanate in northwestern Borneo.
73. Genus of American of east Asian perennial herbs with yellow to orange or red flower rays.
74. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
78. Type genus of the family Pholadidae.
80. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
82. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
83. A member of the Siouan people of Virginia and North Carolina.
86. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
87. A form of Japanese poetry.
89. Ludicrously odd.
90. Genus of western United States annuals with showy yellow or white flowers.
92. In bed.
93. Marked by the reception of pay.
94. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
99. (British) Your grandmother.
100. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
101. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
105. A public promotion of some product or service.
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