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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind.
9. (Greek mythology) The supreme god of ancient mythology.
13. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
16. The cry made by sheep.
17. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
18. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
19. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
20. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
21. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
23. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
25. Speaking a Slavic language.
27. 1,000 baiza equal 1 riyal-omani.
29. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
33. Genus of herbs and subshrubs having showy flowers.
35. A set of data arranged in rows and columns.
38. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
41. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
44. The part of the small intestine between the jejunum and the cecum.
45. Plant materials and animal waste used as fuel.
47. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
49. The elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length.
50. Genus of American of east Asian perennial herbs with yellow to orange or red flower rays.
52. Detected or perceived by the sense of hearing.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. An expression of greeting.
56. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
57. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
60. A master's degree in literature.
66. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
68. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
69. Atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility.
70. Gone by.
71. Inquire about.
73. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
74. Type genus of the Apidae.
75. An appreciable consequence (especially a lessening).
78. A Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s.
80. The residue that remains when something is burned.
82. A Mid-Atlantic state.
83. A genus of Ploceidae.
91. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
95. Lacking natural ease.
97. (heraldry) Applied to a fish depicted horizontally.
99. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
100. A human limb.
101. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
103. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
104. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
105. An affirmative.
106. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
107. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
108. The sign language used in the United States.
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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Informal terms for a mother.
4. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
5. Toward the mouth or oral region.
6. The fatty flesh of eel.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
9. An island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa.
10. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. Fiddler crabs.
12. Large scissors with strong blades.
13. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
14. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
15. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
22. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
24. A geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam.
26. (Brit) Someone who assesses the monetary worth of possessions.
28. Squash bugs.
31. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
32. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
36. The quality of being alien.
37. A cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts.
39. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
40. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
42. An autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea.
43. Of or relating to or characteristic of trade or traders.
46. Common black European thrush.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
51. A son who has the same first name as his father.
53. The specified day of the month.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
59. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
61. The content of cognition.
62. Vietnamese New Year.
63. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
64. A person who is being chased.
65. Deeply moved.
67. An artificial language related to Ido.
72. The act of scanning.
76. A state in northwestern North America.
77. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
79. A public promotion of some product or service.
81. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
84. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
85. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
86. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
87. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
88. Moderate in type or degree or effect or force.
89. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
90. Type genus of the Anatidae.
92. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
93. South African term for `boss'.
94. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
96. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
98. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
102. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
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