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1. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
4. The compass point that is one point north of northwest.
8. The handle of a weapon or tool.
12. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
16. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
17. God of death.
18. Largest known toad species.
19. A sharply directional antenna.
20. A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities.
22. A city in Taiwan.
24. A fraudulent business scheme.
25. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
26. Bound with chains.
28. Any of various Old World herbs of the genus Anchusa having one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers.
30. The act of scanning.
32. A huge destructive wave (especially one caused by an earthquake).
36. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
40. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
48. Tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down.
50. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. Concluding state of pregnancy.
55. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
57. A larval frog or toad.
59. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
61. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
63. Any seed plant yielding balsam.
64. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
65. Deliberately arranged for effect.
68. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. At surface level.
72. A city in western Germany.
73. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
76. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
78. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.
79. God of fire.
80. Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930).
86. Elongate very slender water scorpions.
89. Used especially in treating bruises.
91. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
92. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
93. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
95. A mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers).
96. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
97. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
98. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
99. Cuddling and kissing.
100. A light touch or stroke.
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1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
4. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
5. A guard who keeps watch.
6. A member of a Dravidian people living in Pakistan.
7. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
8. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
9. A fit of shivering.
10. Assets in the form of money.
11. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
12. Soviet geneticist whose adherence to Lamarck's theory of evolution was favored by Stalin (1898-1976).
13. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
14. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
15. Tall New Zealand timber tree.
21. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
23. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
27. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
29. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
31. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
33. Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786).
34. Small free-swimming tunicates.
35. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
37. The property of excessive fatness.
38. Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use.
39. An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term).
42. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
43. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
44. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
45. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
47. Lower in esteem.
49. A unit of pressure.
53. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
54. Failure of some tissue or organ to develop.
56. State in northeastern India.
58. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
60. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
62. A motley assortment of things.
66. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
67. A city in southeastern Spain.
68. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
71. Of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era).
72. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
74. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
75. Cause annoyance in.
77. Squash bugs.
81. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
82. A vigorous blow.
83. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
84. God of love and erotic desire.
85. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
87. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
88. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
90. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
94. Half the width of an em.
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