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1. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
4. Brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula.
9. A port city on the Caspian Sea that is the capital of Azerbaijan and an important center for oil production.
13. An awkward stupid person.
16. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
17. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
18. A city in northwestern Syria.
19. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
20. A mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women.
22. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
25. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
26. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
27. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
29. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
30. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
36. Relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco.
39. Kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts.
42. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
46. Austrian writer (1881-1942).
48. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
49. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
50. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
53. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
55. Avatar of Vishnu.
57. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
59. Of or like a feeble old woman.
60. Before noon.
61. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
63. The dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China.
64. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
65. A deep bow.
67. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
71. Type genus of the Otariidae.
73. A short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost.
74. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
75. Not out.
77. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
83. The capital and largest city of Greece.
90. Large scissors with strong blades.
94. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
95. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
96. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
98. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
101. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
102. A resource.
103. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
104. Having been read.
105. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
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1. The state of being disregarded or forgotten.
2. Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
3. A long pointed rod used as a weapon.
4. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
5. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
6. First in order of importance.
7. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
8. Covered with paving material.
9. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
10. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
11. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
12. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
15. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
21. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
23. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
24. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
28. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
31. An ancient region of west central Italy (southeast of Rome) on the Tyrrhenian Sea.
32. A radical labor movement in the United States founded in nd dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism.
34. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
37. Marked by skill in deception.
38. An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live.
40. A river flowing southwest from Oregon through northern California to the Pacific Ocean.
41. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
43. Basic principles of the cosmos.
44. A light touch or stroke.
45. Distant in either space or time.
47. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
51. (zoology) Relating to frogs and toads.
52. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
54. Small genus of perennial herbs having deadly poisonous tuberous roots.
56. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
58. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
62. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
66. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
68. A metallic tapping sound.
69. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
70. A bachelor's degree in architecture.
72. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
76. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
78. The seventh and last day of the week.
79. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
80. An oil port in southern Iraq.
81. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
82. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
84. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
85. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
86. Belonging to some prior time.
87. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
88. Capital and largest city of the Ukraine.
89. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
91. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
92. The cry made by sheep.
93. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
97. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
99. A state in midwestern United States.
100. A doctor's degree in religion.
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