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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
8. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
12. A doctor's degree in music.
16. The cry made by sheep.
17. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
19. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
20. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
21. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
23. King of the Huns.
25. Make or become free of frost or ice.
27. Without moral standards or principles.
28. A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation.
29. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
31. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
33. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
37. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
38. A Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s.
42. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
46. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
49. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
51. The process of leaching.
52. (used as a sentenced connector) Therefore or consequently.
53. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
54. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
55. A monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific.
57. Beside one another in a row or rank.
60. The language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life.
62. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
63. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
66. Of or relating to or involving an area.
67. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
70. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
72. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
75. Not in operation or operational.
76. A four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine.
80. Informal terms for a mother.
82. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
86. To gain with effort.
89. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
90. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
91. United States sculptor (born in 1924).
93. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
96. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
97. Your general store of remembered information.
98. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
99. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
100. A doctor's degree in education.
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1. In bed.
2. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
3. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
4. A thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings.
5. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
6. Fallow deer.
7. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
8. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
9. Type genus of the Ranidae.
10. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
11. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
12. A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu.
13. A city in central New York.
14. Income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time.
15. English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596).
22. A licensed medical practitioner.
24. Of or relating to the palm of the hand or to the area at the base of the thumb.
26. An accountant certified by the state.
30. One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills.
32. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
34. Not worn away by exposure.
35. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
36. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
39. Experiencing a burning or stinging pain.
40. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
41. Again but in a new or different way.
43. A person's partner in marriage.
44. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
45. A stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune.
47. Be fully aware or cognizant of.
48. A company emblem or device.
50. A medium (art or business) that disseminates moving pictures.
56. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
58. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
59. (Judaism) Not conforming to dietary laws.
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
64. A person's brother or sister.
65. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
68. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
71. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
73. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
74. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
77. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
78. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
79. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
81. One thousandth of a second.
83. Any competition.
84. A town in north central Oklahoma.
85. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
87. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
88. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
92. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
94. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
95. A state in north central United States.
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