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1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
5. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
9. Free from risk or danger.
13. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
16. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
17. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
18. Used in combination.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
21. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
23. The dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa.
25. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
28. A fund of money put by as a reserve.
29. God of death.
30. American novelist (1909-1955).
31. Inquire about.
32. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
34. Moving quickly and lightly.
42. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
43. A genus of Chelonethida.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. Having services engaged for a fee.
48. A person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication.
51. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
53. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
54. A compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed.
55. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
58. Of or relating to o occurring in a tube such as e.g. the fallopian tube or eustachian tube.
61. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
62. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
64. Type genus of the Nepidae.
65. (electronics) Designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel.
66. Free from disturbance.
69. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
70. A council convened to discuss ecclesiastical business.
72. Fiddler crabs.
75. An associate degree in nursing.
78. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
82. Only the bowfins.
85. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
88. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
89. A nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century.
92. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
93. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
94. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
96. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
97. To an excessive degree.
98. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
99. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
100. A genus of Mustelidae.
101. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
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1. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
2. Type genus of the Majidae.
3. A public promotion of some product or service.
4. Small genus of low perennial herbs of montane Europe.
5. A master's degree in library science.
6. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
7. Type genus of the Majidae.
8. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
9. A cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg.
10. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
11. Any of a group of hard crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates of potassium or sodium or calcium or barium.
12. The capital and largest city of Japan.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
15. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
22. Someone unable to adapt to their circumstances.
24. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
26. The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
27. 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.
33. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
35. Rich and superior in quality.
36. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
37. English monk and scholar (672-735).
38. By chance.
39. The principal bullfighter who is appointed to make the final passes and kill the bull.
40. Any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior.
41. Tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down.
44. A jaunty rhythm in music.
45. A person from whom you are descended.
49. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
50. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
52. A small nail.
56. Type genus of the Ciconiidae.
57. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
59. Not necessarily inaudible but not heard.
60. A Loloish language.
63. Small family of usually tropical butterflies.
67. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
68. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
71. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
73. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
74. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
76. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
77. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
79. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
80. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
81. The superior of an abbey of monks.
83. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
84. Temporary living quarters.
86. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
87. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
90. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
91. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
95. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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