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1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
9. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
13. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
16. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
17. Disposed of as useless.
18. The noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine).
19. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. The month following February and preceding April.
21. A small portable timepiece.
22. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
23. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
24. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
26. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
28. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A nation in northern North America.
33. In an unnatural eery manner.
35. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
37. A radioactive transuranic element.
38. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
42. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
48. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
49. Related on the mother's side.
51. English film actress (1913-1967).
52. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
53. (Old Testament) A famous hunter.
55. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
57. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine (trade names Advil and Motrin and Nuprin) used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an analgesic and antipyretic.
59. A Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings.
61. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
62. Any system of principles or beliefs.
63. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
64. An epic in Latin by Virgil.
67. Type genus of the Moraceae.
68. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
70. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
72. A fraudulent business scheme.
74. Avatar of Vishnu.
77. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
78. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
79. North American rat snakes.
81. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
86. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
90. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
91. An informal debt instrument.
92. A cephalosporin antibiotic (trade name Ultracef).
94. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
96. Relatively deep or strong.
97. A master's degree in business.
98. Advanced in years.
99. Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles.
100. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
101. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
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1. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
2. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
3. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
4. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt.
5. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
6. An honorary arts degree.
7. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
8. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
9. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
10. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
11. Adorned by inlays.
12. A compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed.
13. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
14. Common Indian weaverbird.
15. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. Large strong hand (as of a fighter).
27. (statistics) Any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores.
29. The eighth month of the civil year.
32. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
34. A former Turkish term of respect.
36. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
39. Be adjacent or come together.
40. Either of 2 species of the genus Roridula.
41. Closed in or surrounded or included within.
43. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
44. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
45. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
46. Production of a certain amount.
47. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
50. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
54. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
56. Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something.
58. In 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants.
60. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
65. Devouring or craving food in great quantities.
66. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
69. A green transparent form of beryl.
70. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt.
71. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
73. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
75. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
76. Austrian composer (1860-1911).
80. United States comedian.
82. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
83. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
84. 10 jiao equal 1 yuan.
85. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
87. The highest level or degree attainable.
88. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
89. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
93. Two-year-old sheep.
95. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
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