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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
9. Slightly open.
13. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
16. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
17. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
18. Cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable.
19. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
20. (zoology) Pertaining to or characteristic of birds.
21. A short sleeveless outer tunic emblazoned with a coat of arms.
23. Used chiefly as a direction or description in music.
25. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
26. Genus of low-growing mat-forming New Zealand plants.
27. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
30. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
32. Not still wet.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
41. Tear or be torn violently.
45. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
46. (Sumerian) Sun god.
47. 1 species.
50. A member of the Manchu speaking people of Mongolian race of Manchuria.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
55. Deliberately arranged for effect.
58. The basic unit of money in Peru.
59. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
60. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
62. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
63. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
66. The physical property of something that has lost its elasticity.
69. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
70. King of Northumbria who was converted to Christianity (585-633).
72. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
73. State capital of New York.
76. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
77. The airforce of Great Britain.
80. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
81. Offering fun and gaiety.
87. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
90. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
92. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
94. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
95. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
96. Extremely small in scale or scope or capability.
97. A Loloish language.
98. Being five more than one hundred fifty.
99. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
100. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
101. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
102. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
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1. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
2. A small constellation near the South Pole between Tucana and Ara.
3. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
4. Perversely irritable.
5. A public promotion of some product or service.
6. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
7. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
8. Locate and correct errors in a computer program code.
9. Strong and sharp.
10. Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism.
11. A state in northwestern North America.
12. Substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected).
13. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
14. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
15. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
22. By bad luck.
24. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
29. A bachelor's degree in religion.
31. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
33. Continued in your keeping or use or memory.
34. Administer an oil or ointment to.
36. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
38. Any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors.
39. Of or relating to or in the manner of the playwright Henrik Ibsen.
40. Without regard for morality.
42. A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health.
43. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
44. A port city in southwestern Iran.
48. A mining town in southern Wales.
49. A large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property.
51. A genus of Anatidae.
53. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
56. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
57. Flat tableland with steep edges.
61. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
65. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
67. (Greek mythology) The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
68. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
71. (India) Usually in combination.
74. The cry made by sheep.
75. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
76. Black tropical American cuckoo.
78. Of or relating to alga.
79. A crystal of snow.
82. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
83. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
84. Belonging to some prior time.
85. Someone who cooks food.
86. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
87. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
88. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
89. A setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows.
91. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
93. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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