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1. (informal) Of the highest quality.
4. Entice to do.
9. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
13. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
16. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
17. (informal) Elegant and fashionable.
18. The food served and eaten at one time.
19. A human limb.
20. A genus of Paridae.
22. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
24. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
25. Be undecided about something.
26. Type genus of the Sciaenidae.
28. A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language.
30. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
31. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
32. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
35. Type genus of the Majidae.
37. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
41. An associate degree in nursing.
42. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
43. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
45. The Destroyer.
46. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
48. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
52. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
53. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
54. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
55. Important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States.
57. Flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height.
61. City in Sudan.
63. A general kind of something.
64. Move out of a curled position.
65. Long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp.
66. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
67. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
68. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
69. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
72. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
73. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
75. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
77. Having a coating.
80. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
82. Wish harm upon.
88. Short-horned dark-coated goat antelope of mountain areas of south and southeast Asia.
91. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
92. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
94. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
96. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
97. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
98. The sixth month of the civil year.
99. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
101. A branch of the Tai languages.
102. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
103. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
104. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
105. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
2. Fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes.
3. A tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Elavil) with serious side effects.
4. The wife or widow of a czar.
5. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
6. An unwholesome atmosphere.
7. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
8. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
9. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
10. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
11. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
12. (used especially of persons) Having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age.
13. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
14. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
15. A city in northern India.
21. A city in western Saudi Arabia.
23. A salesman who travels to call on customers.
27. Kneading and rubbing parts of the body to increase circulation and promote relaxation v 1.
29. The probability of a specified outcome.
33. (of linens or clothes) Not ironed.
34. A member of the Shoshonean people who formerly lived between Wyoming and the Mexican border but are now chiefly in Oklahoma.
36. A loose cloak with a hood.
38. A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure.
39. Place a value on.
40. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
44. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
47. A potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. Bursting into flower.
51. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
56. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
58. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
59. A form of address for a man.
60. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
62. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
70. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
71. Painted beauty and red admiral.
72. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
74. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
76. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
78. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
79. Of or relating to or near the tarsus of the foot.
81. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
83. Very dark black.
84. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
85. A quantity of no importance.
86. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
87. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
89. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
90. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
93. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
95. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
100. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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