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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
5. A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.
9. A city in northern India.
13. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
16. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
17. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
18. Made of fir or pine.
19. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
20. Have confidence or faith in.
21. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
22. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
26. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
28. Worn until no longer useful.
30. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
31. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
33. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
34. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
38. Mountain avens.
42. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
44. A dicotyledonous genus of the family Ericaceae.
48. Disabled in the feet or legs.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
52. A person forced to flee from home or country.
53. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
54. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
55. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
56. An accidental happening.
57. Female equine animal.
58. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
60. On or toward the lee.
62. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
63. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
64. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
66. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
69. A resource.
70. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
73. Old material that is slightly reworked and used again.
75. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
78. An unofficial association of people or groups.
79. Short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural).
83. Type genus of the Diodontidae.
86. Relating to or resembling or functioning like a trachea.
88. Of or relating to a caesura.
92. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
93. Wavy or notched and curled very irregularly.
96. God of love and erotic desire.
97. (Roman mythology) God of love.
99. Confidently declared to be so.
100. Slightly open.
101. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
102. Similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things.
103. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
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1. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
2. A city in northwestern Syria.
3. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
4. Of or relating to the former Indo-European people.
5. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
6. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
7. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
8. South African term for `boss'.
9. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
10. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
11. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
12. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
13. Using speech rather than writing.
14. A French abbot.
15. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
25. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise.
27. A farewell remark.
29. 100 dirhams equal 1 riyal.
32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
35. Genus of woody Asiatic vines.
36. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
37. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
39. A long Turkish knife with a curved blade having a single edge.
40. A person who alarms others needlessly.
41. Capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape.
43. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
45. A large fleet.
46. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
47. Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.
50. Having the head uncovered.
59. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
61. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
65. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
67. Give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations.
68. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
71. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
72. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
74. A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme.
76. A linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em.
77. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
80. An informal term for a father.
81. Foul with waste matter.
82. A person of Iranian descent.
84. English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705).
85. Performance of moral or religious acts.
87. Avatar of Vishnu.
88. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
89. A Hindu prince or king in India.
90. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
91. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
94. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
95. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
98. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
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