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1. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
4. Horned vipers.
9. (informal) Valuable goods.
13. The residue that remains when something is burned.
16. The airforce of Great Britain.
17. Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land.
18. A genus of Mustelidae.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. Informal terms.
22. Read anew.
23. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
24. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
25. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
27. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
28. An iconic mental representation.
29. Being one more than one hundred.
30. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
31. Type genus of the Elopidae.
33. An informal term for a father.
35. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
37. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
39. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
43. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
47. One haploid set of chromosomes with the genes they contain.
48. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
51. 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.
53. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
54. A long slender cigar.
56. Free of extraneous elements of any kind.
58. Fiddler crabs.
61. The third canonical hour.
63. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
65. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
66. Being nine more than forty.
67. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
69. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
71. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
73. (Greek mythology) Any of the 50 sea nymphs who were daughters of the sea god Nereus.
75. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
77. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
79. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
80. Speaking a Slavic language.
82. An informal term for a father.
83. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
91. A private box for delivery of mail.
93. Run away.
94. A public promotion of some product or service.
95. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
96. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
98. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
99. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
101. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
102. Baby bed with high sides.
103. A small cake leavened with yeast.
104. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
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1. Extremely robust.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. The time at which something begins.
4. (informal) Of the highest quality.
5. Spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun.
6. Of flowers.
7. A state in midwestern United States.
8. Bell magpies.
9. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
10. Of power or authority.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
15. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
21. Resembling a berry.
26. A gum resin from the conium hemlock tree.
29. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
32. Escape or flee.
34. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
36. Trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits.
38. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
40. Not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol).
41. Suffering from a partial loss of memory.
42. A small tessera.
45. United States physicist (born in Germany) noted for research in astrophysics and nuclear physics (born 1906).
49. Someone who sets snares for birds or small animals.
50. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
52. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
55. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
57. Productive work (especially physical work done for wages).
59. Highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic.
60. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
62. Of or like a cecum.
64. Left-hand page.
68. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
70. An ancient jar with two handles and a narrow neck.
71. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
72. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
74. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
75. (Greek mythology) The god of the underworld in ancient mythology.
76. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
78. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
81. The visual percept of a region.
82. Late time of life.
84. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
85. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
86. Being two more than sixty.
87. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
88. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
89. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
90. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
92. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
93. Having leadership guidance.
97. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
98. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
100. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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