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1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
9. Of or relating to near the ear.
13. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
16. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
17. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
18. Fallow deer.
19. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
20. An earring with a pendant ornament.
22. Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals).
23. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
24. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
25. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
26. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
28. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. One thousandth of a second.
32. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
34. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
37. A United States youth subculture of the 1950s.
40. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
45. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
46. Conforming to truth.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. The capital and largest city of Japan.
49. Vacuum flask that holds liquid air or helium for scientific experiments.
51. Strong wrapping paper made from pulp processed with a sulfur solution.
56. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
57. The unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy.
58. The sign language used in the United States.
59. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
61. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
62. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
63. An ax used by mountain climbers for cutting footholds in ice.
65. The local environment.
67. Author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553).
69. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
70. Lower in esteem.
71. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
72. A public promotion of some product or service.
75. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
79. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
81. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
89. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
90. A human being.
92. Sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws widely distributed in the northern hemisphere v 1.
93. A republic in central Europe.
94. Of the nature of or undergoing an experiment.
95. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
97. (British) Informal term for information.
98. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
99. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
100. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
101. 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.
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1. Relatively low in price or charging low prices.
2. Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises.
3. A violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family.
4. 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.
5. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
6. An accidental happening.
7. The eleventh month of the civil year.
8. Greek mythology.
9. The probability of a specified outcome.
10. An exchange of ideas via conversation.
11. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
12. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
13. A white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2).
14. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
15. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
21. Not still wet.
27. Having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or the keel of a ship.
30. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
33. Cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes.
35. Lacking rain.
36. Howler monkeys.
38. The wife or widow of a czar.
39. Danish chemist who devised the pH scale (1868-1939).
41. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
42. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
43. A doctor's degree in religion.
44. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
50. A battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809).
52. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
53. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
54. Full of flavor.
55. One million periods per second.
60. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
64. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
66. Be abundant or plentiful.
68. A city and port in northern Jutland.
69. An accidental happening.
73. Unknown god.
74. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
76. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
77. Follower of Rastafarianism.
78. Flesh of any of various freshwater fishes of the families Centrarchidae of North America or Cyprinidae of Europe.
79. Seed of a pea plant.
80. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
82. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
83. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
84. Type genus of the Amiidae.
85. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
86. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
87. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
88. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
91. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
96. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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