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1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
9. Slightly wet.
13. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
16. Fiddler crabs.
17. Lower in esteem.
18. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
19. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
20. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
21. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
22. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
23. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
24. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
26. Suggestive of the supernatural.
28. A portable rocket launcher used by infantrymen as an anti-tank weapon.
30. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
32. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
34. An associate degree in nursing.
35. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
38. (informal) Of the highest quality.
40. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
44. A state in east central United States.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. Any plant of the genus Eryngium.
52. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
53. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
55. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
56. Become wider.
59. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
61. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
62. In truth (often tends to intensify).
63. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
65. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
67. A vehicle that can fly.
69. A unit of length equal to 3 feet.
70. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
71. A state in southeastern United States.
72. A state in midwestern United States.
73. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. A state in New England.
78. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
81. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
84. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
87. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
91. A three-year law degree.
92. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
96. An associate degree in applied science.
97. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
98. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
99. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
100. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
101. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
102. Lean end of the neck.
103. A city in northern India.
104. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
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1. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
4. The face or front of a building.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Any competition.
7. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
8. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
9. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
11. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
12. A public square with room for pedestrians.
13. A Spanish river.
14. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
15. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
25. Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese.
27. A soft silvery metallic element.
29. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
36. Of or relating to the substance that forms a sheath around the axon of some nerve fibers.
37. Former name for the order Crocodylia.
39. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
41. Smeared with something that soils or stains.
42. Block passage through.
43. Someone who kills with poison.
45. Seed of a pea plant.
46. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
47. Reduction or lack of an immune response to a specific antigen.
48. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
50. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
54. English monk and scholar (672-735).
57. Of or belonging to an aecium.
58. A three-tone Chadic language.
60. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
64. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
66. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
68. A person having a strong liking for something.
69. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
74. Disparaging terms for the common people.
76. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
77. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
79. A Mid-Atlantic state.
80. A heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of Scotland).
82. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
83. Informal terms for a meal.
85. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
86. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
88. Type genus of the Ranidae.
89. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
90. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
93. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
94. The cry made by sheep.
95. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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