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1. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
4. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
8. An explosive device fused to denote under specific conditions.
12. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
16. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
17. Capital of Vanuatu.
18. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
19. The sixth month of the civil year.
20. Of a light brownish color.
22. Statesman who led Northern Rhodesia to full independence as Zambia in 1964 and served as Zambia's first president (born in 1924).
24. Fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment.
25. Without doubt or question.
26. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
28. A slight amount or degree of difference.
30. A master's degree in business.
32. Take in solid food.
33. A ruler of the eastern Roman Empire.
37. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. Having or being distinguished by diminutive size.
42. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. Noteworthy scarcity.
51. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
52. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
54. Perennial plants resembling yucca.
56. Range of what one can know or understand.
57. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
58. Any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages.
59. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
61. A crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint).
63. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
64. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
65. The products of human creativity.
67. A notable achievement.
69. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
70. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
73. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
75. On or toward the lee.
76. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
82. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
84. A skirt consisting of a rectangle of calico or printed cotton.
87. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
88. (informal British usage) Aggravation or aggression.
90. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
91. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
92. A strong emotion.
93. Common black European thrush.
95. The basic unit of money in Iran.
97. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
98. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
99. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
100. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
101. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
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1. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
2. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
3. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
4. Involving only main features.
5. American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry.
6. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
7. Noisy talk.
8. Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge.
9. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
10. A woman of refinement.
11. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
12. Common Indian weaverbird.
13. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
14. A dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China.
15. Something considered choice to eat.
21. Used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. A naturally occurring weak estrogenic hormone secreted by the mammalian ovary.
31. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
34. A long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume.
35. A unit of force equal to 1000 newtons.
36. (commerce) The period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange).
38. Chief port of Yemen.
40. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
43. A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair.
44. (Babylonian) Father of the gods.
45. (botany) Bearing a coma.
48. The twelfth month of the civil year.
49. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
50. The 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
53. 14th President of the United States (1804-1869).
55. The foot of a human being.
60. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
62. Terrestrial or epilithic ferns of tropical rain forests.
66. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
68. An informal term for a father.
71. A short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing.
72. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
74. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
75. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
77. Aromatic herb of southern Europe.
78. (zoology) Pertaining to or characteristic of birds.
79. A fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge.
80. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
81. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
83. A city in northern India.
85. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
86. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
89. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
90. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
94. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
96. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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