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1. A person regarded as greedy and pig-like.
4. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
9. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. A boy or man.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. A heading that names a statute or legislative bill.
18. Imprudently incurring risk.
19. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
20. The basic unit of money in Bulgaria.
21. Characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures.
23. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.
24. (chemistry) Being or containing an acid.
26. The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form.
28. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
29. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
31. Deprive of by deceit.
34. Type genus of the family Aplysiidae.
36. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
37. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
41. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
45. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
50. Having edges that are jagged from injury.
51. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
52. An early type of mandolin.
55. Treated with some kind of application.
57. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
58. A substance that abrades or wears down.
60. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
61. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
63. A public promotion of some product or service.
64. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
65. United States choreographer noted for his use of African elements (born in 1931).
72. Relating to or accompanying birth.
73. A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars.
74. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
75. Having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation.
77. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
78. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
81. Lacking strength or vigor.
85. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
89. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
92. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
93. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
94. A small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix.
97. Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness.
99. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
100. Expel, as of gases and odors.
101. An informal conversation.
102. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
103. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
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1. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Large fish-eating Indian crocodilian with a long slender snout.
4. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.
5. A microchip that uses tiny strands of DNA to latch onto and quickly recognize thousands of genes at a time.
6. Your general store of remembered information.
7. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
8. Cause to go somewhere.
9. Characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion.
10. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
11. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
12. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
13. Being three more than fifty.
14. Largest known toad species.
15. Fallow deer.
22. French dramatist (born in Romania) who was a leading exponent of the theater of the absurd (1912-1994).
25. Childcare during the day while parents work.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. Exultantly proud and joyful.
35. City in the Transvaal.
38. Any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries.
39. The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth.
40. Supply with notes.
42. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
43. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
47. The commonest type of solidified lava.
48. The cry made by sheep.
53. Very slow in tempo and broad in manner n.
54. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
56. Lasting through an entire day adv.
59. Avatar of Vishnu.
62. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
66. Characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions.
67. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
68. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
69. Beside one another in a row or rank.
70. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
71. United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909).
76. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
79. A standard or model or pattern regarded as typical.
80. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
82. An associate degree in nursing.
83. Disposed of to a purchaser.
84. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
86. A heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal.
87. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
88. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
90. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
91. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
95. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
96. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
98. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
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