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1. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
9. Divulge information or secrets.
13. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
16. Having leadership guidance.
17. The brightest star in Cygnus.
18. A Russian river.
19. Towards the side away from the wind.
20. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
22. An informal term for a father.
23. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
24. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
25. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
27. Having or covered with a lid or lids.
28. Sour or bitter in taste.
29. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
30. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
31. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
32. The Bantu language of the Buganda people.
34. (used of living things especially persons) In an early period of life or development or growth.
37. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
40. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
41. European herb resembling vetch.
43. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
44. A state in New England.
47. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
52. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
54. Relieve from military service.
57. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
59. Ending in a sharp point.
61. An associate degree in applied science.
62. An associate degree in nursing.
64. At surface level.
66. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
67. A genus of tropical and subtropical Old World climbers or shrubs or trees.
69. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
70. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
71. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
73. Make an etching of.
74. Of or relating to or characteristic of Texas or its residents.
76. Lower in esteem.
77. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
79. Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955).
81. A state in north central United States.
82. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
85. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
86. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
87. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
89. Affect with wonder.
93. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
97. A genus of Indriidae.
98. (Welsh myth) The other world.
99. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
100. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
101. Young bird especially of domestic fowl.
104. Wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and North Africa having large recurved horns.
106. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
107. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
108. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
109. A chalcedony with alternating black and white bands.
110. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
111. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
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1. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
2. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
3. The sixth month of the civil year.
4. A public promotion of some product or service.
5. A doctor's degree in education.
6. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
7. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
8. A port city in southwestern Iran.
9. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
10. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
11. Black tropical American cuckoo.
12. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
13. A town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron.
14. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
15. Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931).
21. A small dynamo with a secondary winding that produces a high voltage enabling a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in a gasoline engine.
26. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
29. A scented lozenge used to sweeten the breath (e.g. to conceal the odor of tobacco).
33. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
35. Any of several cultivated sweet cherries having sweet juicy heart-shaped fruits.
36. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
38. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
39. Used of idealized country life.
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
45. Timely convenience.
46. Made clean.
49. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
50. (Greek mythology) A sorceress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine.
51. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
53. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
55. One thousandth of a second.
56. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
58. Kauri pine.
60. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
63. Australian clover fern.
65. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
68. Mostly black African weaverbird.
72. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
75. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
78. Inability to walk.
80. English poet (1554-1586).
83. A row of unravelled stitches.
84. Complacently or inanely foolish.
88. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
90. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
91. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
92. The compass point that is one point north of northwest.
94. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
95. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
96. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
102. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
103. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
105. Denoting a quantity consisting of 20 items or units.
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