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1. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
4. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying the primeval sea.
9. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
13. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
16. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
17. A chock or bar wedged under a wheel or between the spokes to prevent a vehicle from rolling down an incline.
18. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
19. Noisy talk.
20. A human limb.
21. Any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers.
22. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
23. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
24. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
26. A person who eats human flesh.
29. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
31. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
32. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
34. United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902).
38. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
40. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
43. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
48. A white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans.
50. Rate of revolution of a motor.
51. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
53. Any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers.
55. An elaborate song for solo voice.
57. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
58. Look down on with disdain.
59. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
61. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.
63. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
64. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
65. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
67. A public promotion of some product or service.
68. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
71. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
74. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
76. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
78. Constitution of the human body.
79. At an earlier place.
82. (informal) Exceptionally good.
84. Singing jazz.
87. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
89. French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982).
93. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
95. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
97. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
98. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
99. A city of central China.
100. Any of various small biting flies.
101. A notable achievement.
102. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
103. A narrow way or road.
104. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
105. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
2. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
5. With rapid movements.
6. The template for protein synthesis.
7. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
8. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
9. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
10. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
11. A domain in which something is dominant.
12. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
13. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
14. A sudden short attack.
15. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
25. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
27. Not out.
28. United States heavyweight boxing champion (1866-1933).
30. A Mid-Atlantic state.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. Place a value on.
36. Having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds.
37. Urged social reform in 19th century England.
39. (usually plural) The state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound.
41. God of dawn and light.
42. The father of your father or mother.
44. Two items of the same kind.
45. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
46. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
47. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
49. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
52. A formal expression of praise.
54. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
56. A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables.
60. An associate degree in nursing.
62. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
66. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
69. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
70. Align anew or better.
71. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
72. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
73. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
75. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
77. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
80. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
81. An persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair.
83. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
85. 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.
86. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
88. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
90. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
91. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
92. A quantity of no importance.
94. The sign language used in the United States.
96. 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.
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