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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
8. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
12. A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck.
16. The basic unit of money in Albania.
17. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
18. Wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India.
19. Using speech rather than writing.
20. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
21. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
22. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
23. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
24. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. (biology) Nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism.
28. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
30. A metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century.
32. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
34. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
36. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
40. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
41. Hurt or upset.
45. Causing alarm or fear.
47. (Irish) The sea personified.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
50. Compelled forcibly by an outside agency.
54. The cry made by sheep.
55. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
56. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
58. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
60. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
61. Up to the immediate present.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. A city in central Lithuania.
65. A job in an organization.
66. (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.
68. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
69. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
71. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
74. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
75. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
79. A French abbot.
82. One related on the mother's side.
85. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
86. English Pre-Raphaelite painter (1829-1896).
88. (Greek mythology) The Muse of astronomy.
90. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
91. A rapid bustling commotion.
92. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
94. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
95. Usually large hard-shelled seed.
96. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
97. The ending of a series or sequence.
98. Informal terms for money.
99. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
3. Jordan's port.
4. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
5. A yellow quartz.
6. Leather with a napped surface.
7. A period of 10 years.
8. God of fire.
9. A city in north central Venezuela.
10. A Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam.
11. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
12. Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849).
13. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
14. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
15. Buildings for carrying on industrial labor.
25. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
27. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Having two feet.
33. An order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae.
35. Very small northern fish.
37. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
38. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
39. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
42. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
43. A conceited and self-centered person.
44. The 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
46. A comedian who uses gags.
51. An item of factual information derived from measurement or research.
52. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
53. The easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations).
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
59. Large elongated compressed food fish of European Atlantic waters.
64. Small genus of deciduous West Indian trees or shrubs.
65. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
67. A hard brittle blue-gray or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals.
70. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth.
72. A city in northwestern Switzerland.
73. Nonresinous wood of a fir tree.
76. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
77. The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.
78. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
80. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
81. A blemish made by dirt.
83. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
84. United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis (born 1914).
85. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
87. Gone by.
89. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
93. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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