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1. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
5. Mother goddess.
9. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
13. Tag the base runner to get him out.
16. A city in northwestern Syria.
17. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
18. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
19. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
20. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
22. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
24. Enthusiastic approval.
26. A sudden spasm.
28. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. Argentinian cariama.
32. A major victory by the Romans over the Macedonians in 168 BC.
33. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
35. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
39. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
42. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
44. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
46. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. Conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm.
49. Take away the weapons from.
51. All the plant life in a particular region.
53. Goddess of fate.
54. A person who lives in the dales of Northern England.
57. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
58. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
60. Being four more than sixty.
61. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
63. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. A genus of Ploceidae.
68. State in northeastern India.
69. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
70. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
71. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
73. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
75. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
76. A city of central China.
79. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
81. Has cams attached to it.
83. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
87. A genus of Indriidae.
90. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
92. Become ground down or deteriorate.
93. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
95. British politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964).
96. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
97. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
99. A small nail.
101. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
102. Either extremity of something that has length.
103. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
104. Suggestive of the supernatural.
105. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
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1. A kiln for drying hops.
2. Basically shredded cabbage.
3. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
4. A short pithy instructive saying.
5. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
6. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
7. Unaged colorless liquor originating in Russia.
8. Being one more than two.
9. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
10. Directions for making something.
11. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
12. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
13. Large Indian antelope.
14. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
15. A wine bottle made of leather.
21. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
23. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
25. The basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the System International d'Unites.
27. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
29. A closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure.
34. Having no odor.
36. A city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva.
37. Type genus of the Anatidae.
38. A word or expression used for some particular thing.
40. A region of Malaysia on northwestern Borneo.
41. The academic world.
43. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
45. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
48. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
50. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
52. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
55. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
56. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
59. An ache localized in the middle or inner ear.
62. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
66. (informal) A stupid incompetent person.
67. Thunderous verbal attack.
69. Large scissors with strong blades.
72. A master's degree in library science.
74. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
77. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
78. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
80. Not subject to change or variation especially in behavior.
82. An established custom.
84. The rotating armature of a motor or generator.
85. (Philippine) A dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish.
86. Being deficient in moisture.
88. Characteristic of false pride.
89. In bed.
91. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
94. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
98. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
100. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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