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1. A federally chartered savings bank.
4. Fallow deer.
8. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
12. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
16. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
17. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
18. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
19. A primeval personification of air and breath.
20. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
21. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
22. An unofficial association of people or groups.
23. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
24. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
26. Shrubby plant with aromatic grayish-green leaves used as a cooking herb.
29. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
32. A mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid.
33. American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1731-1814).
34. The sound made by a gentle blow.
36. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
38. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
41. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
48. A large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel.
49. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
50. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
51. An Italian poet famous for `The Divine Comedy'--a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321).
53. Belonging to some prior time.
54. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
56. United States songwriter and playwright famous for his patriotic songs (1878-1942).
58. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
61. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
62. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
64. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
66. Located at or near the back of an animal.
67. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
69. A small cake leavened with yeast.
71. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
72. The basic unit of money in Romania.
73. Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments.
78. A Mid-Atlantic state.
79. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
80. Using speech rather than writing.
84. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
88. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
91. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
93. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
95. A large number or amount.
96. Largest known toad species.
97. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
99. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
100. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
101. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
102. An informal term for a father.
103. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Cubes of meat or seafood cooked in hot oil and then dipped in any of various sauces.
2. Lean end of the neck.
3. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
4. A light touch or stroke.
5. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
6. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
7. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
8. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
9. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
10. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
11. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
12. A deep bow.
13. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
14. Relating to or characteristic of people of Rome.
15. Complacently or inanely foolish.
25. A genus of evergreen shrub that grows in New Zealand.
27. 300 to 3000 kilohertz.
28. A German machine gun.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
35. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
37. Informal terms for a mother.
39. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
40. A populous province of south central China.
42. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
43. The basic unit of money in Macao.
44. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
45. Land received by fee tail v 1.
46. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
47. Matter that remains after something has been removed.
52. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
55. Colloquial British abbreviation.
57. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
59. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
60. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
63. In bed.
65. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
68. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
69. A light touch or stroke.
70. A gay festivity.
74. The bill in a restaurant.
75. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
76. 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.
77. Little known Kamarupan languages.
81. The capital of Morocco.
82. Given or having a specified name.
83. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
84. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
85. (Greek mythology) God of love.
86. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
87. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
89. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
90. God of love and erotic desire.
92. A flexible container with a single opening.
94. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
95. Before noon.
98. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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