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1. A vehicle carrying many passengers.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
12. Absent without permission.
16. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
17. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
18. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
19. A long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening.
20. (informal) Roused to anger.
21. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
23. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
24. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
26. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
27. Application of biological principals to the study and design of engineering systems (especially electronic systems).
29. A member of the nomadic Ugrian people living in northwestern Siberia (east of the Ural mountains).
31. The cry made by sheep.
33. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
34. An associate degree in applied science.
36. Weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields.
40. Make reference to.
45. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
46. Isolated from others.
47. A large fleet.
49. Ancient Athenian philosopher.
50. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
52. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.
54. A city in northwestern Iran.
55. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
56. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
58. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
61. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
63. Of or relating to or characteristic of Syria or its people or culture.
64. A rosid dicot genus that includes moon carrots.
65. Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit.
66. Being ten more than thirty.
67. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
68. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
69. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
70. Reduce in worth, character, etc..
74. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
77. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
78. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
80. A three-year law degree.
81. United States mathematician and astronomer noted for his works on navigation (1773-1838).
87. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
90. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
91. Characterized by or caused by allergy.
93. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
94. (Irish) The sea personified.
96. Divisible by two.
98. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
99. A doctor's degree in theology.
100. An oil port in southern Iraq.
101. Not widely known.
102. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. A young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men.
2. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
3. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
4. The residue that remains when something is burned.
5. (usually in the plural) Pants for casual wear.
6. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
7. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
8. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
9. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
11. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
12. An oral beta blocker (trade name Tenormin) used in treating hypertension and angina.
13. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
22. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
25. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
28. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
35. The particular occupation for which you are trained.
37. Not clear.
38. Roman lyric poet remembered for his love poems to an aristocratic Roman woman (84-54 BC).
39. Iranian religious leader of the Shiites.
41. Capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression.
42. Any of various plastic laminates containing melamine.
43. Easy to reach.
44. Dark sweet or semisweet dessert wine from Sicily.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
51. Having a nose (either literal or metaphoric) especially of a specified kind.
53. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
57. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
59. A state in New England.
60. Small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping.
62. Cheap and shoddy.
71. Imperial moths.
72. Austrian composer (1860-1911).
73. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
75. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
76. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
79. (Judaism) A period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative.
82. An endorsement.
83. A person who is under the protection or in the custody of another.
84. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
85. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
86. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
88. Of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section.
89. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
92. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
95. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
97. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
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