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1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. State in northeastern India.
9. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
13. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
16. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
17. A technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing).
18. Similar or related in quality or character.
19. A unit of pressure.
20. An associate degree in applied science.
21. The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds).
22. An informal term for a father.
23. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
24. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
26. A colorless flammable liquid obtained from petroleum or coal tar.
29. Comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae.
31. An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving.
32. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
34. Jordan's port.
37. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
41. Being nine more than forty.
42. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
44. Of or relating to the dura mater.
45. Tropical American flat-jointed prickly pear.
46. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
48. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
50. A beckoning gesture.
51. The 9th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
52. An Eskimo hut.
55. A state in northwestern North America.
57. The largest and southernmost island in the Marianas.
58. A grant made by a law court.
60. Earlier a god.
61. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
62. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
63. Relating to or consisting of runes.
66. Provided with artificial light.
67. A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
69. Divided into two lobes.
73. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
74. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
76. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
80. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
82. Any ameba of the genus Endamoeba.
85. Cosmopolitan genus of usually perennial herbs with flowers that resemble asters.
89. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
90. Pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence.
93. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
94. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
95. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
97. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
98. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
99. A long slender cigar.
100. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. An informal conversation.
2. 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.
3. A rosid dicot genus that includes moon carrots.
4. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
5. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
6. Sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along on wheels and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs.
7. A city in northeastern Ohio.
8. Lead someone in the wrong direction.
9. Produced by a manufacturing process.
10. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
11. Walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians.
12. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
13. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
14. One thousandth of a second.
15. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
25. Plume thistles.
27. Capital of modern Macedonia.
28. Line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) toward the enemy.
30. Step on it.
33. Abnormally small production of urine.
35. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
36. Say mean things.
38. In a rueful manner.
39. (zoology) Of or near the head end or toward the front plane of the body.
40. A member of a people of India living in Maharashtra.
43. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
47. Being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness.
49. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
53. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
54. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
56. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
59. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
64. The event of being born.
65. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
68. A colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs.
69. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
70. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
71. An Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean.
72. Highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic.
73. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
75. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
77. A city in southeastern South Korea.
78. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
79. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
80. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
81. God of justice.
83. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
84. English monk and scholar (672-735).
85. In operation or operational.
86. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
87. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
88. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
91. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
92. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
96. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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