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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
9. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
13. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
16. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
17. Any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap.
18. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. Shining intensely.
23. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
25. By bad luck.
27. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
28. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
30. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
31. A state in midwestern United States.
33. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ireland or its people.
35. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
38. A genus of Scolopacidae.
41. Offspring of a coyote and a dog.
45. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
47. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
49. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
50. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
51. Composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk.
53. Love of or taste for fine objects of art.
54. Merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film).
56. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
58. A successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball).
59. A strong emotion.
60. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
62. A quantity of no importance.
64. The act of sitting or standing astride.
66. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
67. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
68. That is to say.
69. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
72. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
73. (trademark) An antacid.
77. Any fungus of the genus Lepiota.
80. Learns from a tutor.
81. A skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer).
84. Of a moderate orange-yellow color.
86. Rapid and indistinct speech.
90. A type of folk song that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century.
91. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
92. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
94. A master's degree in business.
95. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
96. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
98. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
100. (British) Your grandmother.
101. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
102. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
103. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
104. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
5. Harass or assault sexually.
6. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
7. (Old Testament) King of Judah who abolished idolatry (715-687 BC).
8. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
9. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
10. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
11. Capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
15. Fallow deer.
22. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
24. A colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis.
26. English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766).
29. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
32. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
34. Conforming to truth.
36. Someone who claims to speak the truth.
37. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
39. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.
40. Southeastern Asian perennial with aromatic roots.
42. 100 dirhams equal 1 riyal.
43. Most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied.
44. Founder of Buddhism.
46. Detected or perceived by the sense of hearing.
48. Two items of the same kind.
52. Strike sharply.
55. Induce to have sex.
57. A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
61. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
63. Fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula.
65. French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778).
70. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
71. The center point on a shield.
74. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
75. Use explosives on.
76. A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment.
78. A small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord.
79. A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university).
80. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
85. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
87. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
88. English monk and scholar (672-735).
89. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
93. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
97. The eleventh month of the civil year.
99. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
100. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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