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1. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
4. Related on the mother's side.
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
13. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
16. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
17. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
18. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
19. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
20. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. A French policeman.
25. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
26. The longest division of geological time.
27. A city and port in northern Jutland.
29. Distant in either space or time.
30. A small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped.
33. Any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers.
34. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
37. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
40. A horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure.
44. Goddess of fertility.
48. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
50. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
52. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
53. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
55. A doctor's degree in optometry.
56. A small piece of cloth.
58. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
59. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
61. Island in West Indies.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
67. The side of military or naval formation.
68. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
69. A radioactive transuranic element.
71. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
73. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
74. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
75. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
77. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
80. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
89. Of or relating to apnea.
91. Grind together, of teeth.
94. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
95. Graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting.
98. An analgesic for mild pain.
99. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
100. Among the largest bony fish.
101. Relating to the Urdu language.
103. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
104. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
105. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
106. Young sheep.
107. A unit of length equal to 1760 yards.
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1. Robust east Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers.
2. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
3. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
4. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
5. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
6. How long something has existed.
7. Medium tall celery pine of New Zealand.
8. Give qualities or abilities to.
9. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
10. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
11. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
12. Minor or subordinate.
13. A specific sequence of three adjacent bases on a strand of DNA or RNA that provides genetic code information for a particular amino acid.
14. Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor.
15. A monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific.
21. French soldier said to be fearless and chivalrous (1473-1524).
23. Used of a single unit or thing.
24. Line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) toward the enemy.
28. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
31. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
32. A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile v 1.
35. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
36. A Mid-Atlantic state.
38. European annual with pale rose-colored flowers.
39. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
41. Metal shackles.
42. A belt-shaped region in the heavens on either side to the ecliptic.
43. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
45. A deep bow.
46. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
47. The 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
49. An audiotape recording of sound.
51. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
54. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
57. A public promotion of some product or service.
60. Dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid.
62. Being one more than one.
63. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
64. Divulge information or secrets.
70. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
72. A tub in which clothes or linens can be washed.
73. Minor or subordinate.
76. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.
78. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
79. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
81. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
82. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
83. (Greek mythology) The rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods.
84. Declare invalid.
85. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
86. An island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy.
87. A source of danger.
88. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
90. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
91. Unknown god.
92. A city in northern India.
93. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
94. In operation or operational.
96. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
97. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
102. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
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