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1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. A fraudulent business scheme.
8. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
12. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
16. Towards the side away from the wind.
17. God of love and erotic desire.
18. The capital of Western Samoa.
19. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
20. Having removed clothing.
22. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
24. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
25. 100 bututs equal 1 dalasi.
26. The site of an archeological exploration.
27. An island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea.
29. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
31. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
33. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
34. Relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation.
37. An iconic mental representation.
40. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
44. Lean end of the neck.
47. A city and port in northern Jutland.
48. An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down.
52. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
53. Any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon.
54. (prefix) Within.
56. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
57. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
58. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
62. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
64. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
65. A person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure.
66. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
67. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
70. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
72. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
74. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
78. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
81. An imperfection in a device or machine.
84. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
85. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
86. French general who became Emperor of the French (1769-1821).
89. Displeasing to the senses and morally revolting.
92. Any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda.
94. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
96. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
97. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
98. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
100. A Russian river.
101. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
102. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
103. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
104. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
105. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
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1. A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.
2. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
3. A subdivision of a larger religious group.
4. The sport of gliding on skates.
5. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
6. Before noon.
7. A crime syndicate in the United States.
8. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
9. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
10. Water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs.
11. A pulley-block used to guide a rope forming part of a ship's rigging to avoid chafing.
12. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
13. The content of cognition.
14. Set down according to a plan.
15. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
21. Having lips or parts that resemble lips.
23. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
28. 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.
30. 1/10 gram.
32. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
35. A song (sometimes improvised) sung by guests at a banquet.
36. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
38. A jurist who interprets Muslim law.
39. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
41. Of or relating to the aorta.
42. Woolly aphids.
43. A genus with one species that is a rapidly growing climbing vine with tuberous roots.
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. (Greek mythology) The last king of Troy.
49. A domain in which something is dominant.
50. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
51. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
55. An unforeseen obstacle.
59. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
60. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
61. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
63. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
68. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
69. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
71. The first event in a series.
73. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
75. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
76. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
77. Someone who takes more time than necessary.
78. A resource.
79. An elevated geological formation.
80. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
82. Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area.
83. Prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels.
87. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
88. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
90. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
91. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
93. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
95. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
99. A state in midwestern United States.
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