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1. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
4. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
8. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
12. A member of the Dravidian people living in the Nilgiri hills in southern India.
16. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
17. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
18. (Welsh) A warrior god.
19. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
20. A member of the Manchu speaking people of Mongolian race of Manchuria.
22. Spaced apart.
24. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
25. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
26. Arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair.
29. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
31. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
33. Being nine more than ninety.
35. A Loloish language.
36. Greek lyric poet of Lesbos.
42. Tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea.
45. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
46. An ancient Greek city on the slopes of Mount Parnassus.
48. A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth.
51. (Greek mythology) Wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
52. Divisible by two.
53. Kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting.
55. A container.
57. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
58. A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
59. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
61. Russian dancer who was often the partner of Dame Margot Fonteyn and who defected to the United States in 1961 (born in 1938).
62. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
63. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
64. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
66. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
67. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
69. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
71. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
73. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
75. Be compatible or in accordance with.
77. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
79. In operation or operational.
80. The rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written).
85. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
88. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
90. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
91. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
92. A member of the Samoyedic people living on the Taimyr peninsula in Siberia.
94. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
97. A feeling of intense anger.
98. A quantity of no importance.
99. Brain corals.
100. Soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
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1. (trademark) An antacid.
2. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
3. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
4. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates sperm-forming cells in male mammals.
5. The state of being unsure of something.
6. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
7. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
8. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. Two performers or singers who perform together.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
13. Toward the mouth or oral region.
14. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
15. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
21. The capital and largest city of Wyoming.
23. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
27. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
28. Being derived from.
30. A royal treasury.
32. The federal department that administers federal program dealing with better housing and urban renewal.
34. Relating to or resembling a crow.
37. The basic unit of money in Sierra Leone.
38. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
39. A worker who applies spray to a surface.
40. (Greek mythology) Fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail.
41. Refuse to acknowledge.
43. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
44. An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram.
47. A small aromatic or medicated candy.
49. A police officer who investigates crimes.
50. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
54. United States writer (born in 1925).
56. East Indian tree widely cultivated in the tropics for its aromatic seed.
60. Regional and archaic.
65. A bee that is a a member of the genus Andrena.
68. Dragonflies and damselflies.
69. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates sperm-forming cells in male mammals.
70. All the New World monkeys except marmosets and tamarins.
72. (Greek mythology) The brother of Jocasta and uncle of Antigone who became king of Thebes after the fall of Oedipus.
74. Half the width of an em.
76. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
77. A doctor's degree in religion.
78. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
81. Squash bugs.
82. (botany) Especially of leaves.
83. God of wealth and love.
84. United States educator who founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta, Georgia (1854-1933).
86. In bed.
87. The basic unit of money on Malta.
88. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
89. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
93. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
95. The square of a body of any size of type.
96. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
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