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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
9. A youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s.
13. (informal) Roused to anger.
16. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
17. Unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom.
18. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
21. A city in southern California (southeast of Los Angeles).
23. A common white or colorless mineral (hydrated calcium sulphate) used to make cements and plasters (especially plaster of Paris).
25. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
27. A state of readiness to respond.
28. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. A tributary of the Rhine.
32. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
34. Any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers.
39. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
43. A long slender cigar.
45. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
48. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
49. A town in north central Oklahoma.
50. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
52. Using speech rather than writing.
53. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
54. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
55. One or some or every or all without specification.
56. Cause annoyance in.
57. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
61. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
63. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
64. (Greek mythology) The Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry.
66. Jordan's port.
68. Affect with wonder.
70. That is to say.
71. Something left after other parts have been taken away.
73. A public promotion of some product or service.
74. Physically weak.
77. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
78. Something causes misery or death.
81. Type genus of the Anatidae.
84. A state in northwestern North America.
87. A large mass of ice floating at sea.
89. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
92. A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells.
93. Tent that is an Eskimo summer dwelling.
94. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
97. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
98. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
99. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
101. Tag the base runner to get him out.
102. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
103. Italian poet who wrote an epic poem about the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (1544-1595).
104. Of or relating to near the ear.
105. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. The highest level or degree attainable.
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. (anatomy) Any encircling or beltlike structure.
6. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
7. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
8. A sweet innocent baby.
9. (Norse mythology) Giant who lives in the roots of Yggdrasil and guards the well of wisdom.
10. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
11. Relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco.
12. Outer space as viewed from the earth.
13. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
14. A fit of shivering.
15. Fallow deer.
22. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
24. The horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low.
26. A nation in northern North America.
30. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. A person who disappears.
36. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained.
37. A slight indication.
38. A German machine gun.
40. A keel-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere.
41. Basal part of a plant ovule opposite the micropyle.
42. Declared but not proved.
44. A dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin.
46. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
47. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
51. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
58. Being one more than fifty.
59. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
60. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
62. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
65. Given to lying.
67. Industrial city in southwestern Zimbabwe.
69. Brilliantly colored south Asian pheasant.
72. A master's degree in business.
75. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
76. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
79. Of or pertaining to or written in Altaic.
80. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
82. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
83. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
85. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
86. Jordan's port.
88. At or constituting a border or edge.
90. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
91. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
92. An unforeseen obstacle.
95. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
96. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
100. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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