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1. Inquire about.
4. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
9. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust.
13. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. Lower in esteem.
18. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. An industrial city in south central Finland.
23. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
25. Squash bugs.
27. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
28. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
29. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
31. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
34. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
42. Type genus of the Giraffidae.
45. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
46. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
47. Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs.
49. The probability of a specified outcome.
51. Having relatively few calories.
53. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
54. Anything that serves as an enticement.
55. Water frozen in the solid state.
56. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
58. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
59. Lacking sensation.
61. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
63. An associate degree in nursing.
65. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
66. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
67. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
71. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
73. A public promotion of some product or service.
74. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
77. A book of the New Testament.
81. A small cake leavened with yeast.
84. A geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry.
89. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
92. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
93. A condition requiring relief.
94. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
96. In addition.
97. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
98. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
99. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
100. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. The act of scanning.
3. God of love and erotic desire.
4. Brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Same in identity.
7. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
8. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
9. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
10. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
11. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A large number or amount.
14. A genus of Mustelidae.
15. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping.
22. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
24. One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada.
26. A long brightly colored shawl.
32. Type genus of the Gentianaceae.
33. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
35. Language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate.
36. Presence of abnormal amounts of uric acid salts in the blood.
37. Serving as or forming a base.
38. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
39. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
40. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
41. Small hardy range horse of the western plains descended from horses brought by the Spanish.
43. Type genus of the Nepidae.
44. Being on the left side.
48. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
50. Russian country house.
52. Having leadership guidance.
57. An unofficial association of people or groups.
60. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
62. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
64. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
68. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
69. Made of fir or pine.
70. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
71. A large number or amount.
72. Of a firearm.
75. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
76. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
78. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
79. Worthless material that is discarded.
80. A man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs.
82. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
83. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
85. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
86. Being one more than one hundred.
87. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
88. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
90. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
91. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
95. Being one more than three.
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