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1. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
4. At full speed.
9. An edible tuber native to South America.
13. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
16. Used of a single unit or thing.
17. A concave molding.
18. A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure.
19. A rapid bustling commotion.
20. A professional killer who uses a gun.
22. Beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set.
24. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
25. Widespread genus or herbs or soft-wooded arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers.
27. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
28. A grant made by a law court.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
31. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
33. The superior of an abbey of monks.
37. Any movable possession (especially articles of clothing).
45. A state in New England.
46. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
47. make ready or suitable in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc.
50. Moderately warm.
52. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
53. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
55. A member of the North American Indian people of Arizona and adjacent Mexico and California.
56. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
59. A notice of someone's death.
60. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
61. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
62. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
64. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
66. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
67. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
73. An associate degree in nursing.
75. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
78. Liveliness and energy.
79. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
81. Of or containing iridium.
83. Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity).
87. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
91. An associate degree in applied science.
92. Perfume esp. with a censer.
93. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
95. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
96. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
97. Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
98. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
99. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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1. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
2. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
3. (British) Diesel oil used in cars and lorries with diesel engines (from d(iesel) e(ngine) r(oad) v(ehicle)).
4. A salt or ester of acetic acid.
5. Worthy of imitation.
6. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
7. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
8. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
9. The wife of a sheik.
10. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
11. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
12. Cause to become detached or separated.
13. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
14. The sixth month of the civil year.
15. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
21. A city in Veneto.
23. One million periods per second.
26. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. Habitually complaining.
32. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
34. A persistently annoying person.
35. Having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds.
36. A parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Claforan) used for severe infections of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract.
38. A manual of black magic (for invoking spirits and demons).
39. Genus of showy plants of western North America having palmate leaves and variously colored racemose flowers.
41. A narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea.
42. Become of.
43. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
44. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
48. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
49. The capital of Morocco.
51. Celestial shepherd god.
54. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
57. A comedian who uses gags.
58. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
63. Not based on fact.
65. The capital of Nationalist China.
68. Completely enveloping.
69. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
71. Traveling on horseback.
72. Half the width of an em.
74. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
76. Come into existence.
77. A short crowbar.
78. Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.
80. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
82. A Mid-Atlantic state.
84. Report or maintain.
85. A framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame.
86. (prefix) Within.
88. An honorary degree in science.
89. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
90. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
94. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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