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1. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
5. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
9. God of love and erotic desire.
13. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
16. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. Very dark black.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
20. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
21. Unwisely talking too much.
23. Summer cypress.
25. Very sad.
26. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
28. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
29. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
30. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
32. The event of dying or departure from life.
35. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
37. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
39. Used in some especially older classifications.
43. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
44. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
45. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
48. The capital of Eritrea.
49. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
52. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
54. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
55. (logic or grammar) Of or relating to scope.
59. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
60. Old World woody vines.
61. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
63. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
64. Worn away as by water or ice or wind.
65. An audiotape recording of sound.
66. Genus of low-growing mat-forming New Zealand plants.
70. The act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court).
72. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
74. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
75. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
76. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
79. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
82. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
84. (Jewish folklore) A demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior.
91. The sign language used in the United States.
92. Either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet.
94. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
97. A unit of pressure.
98. Reject with contempt.
99. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
101. A human limb.
102. An associate degree in applied science.
103. Having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds.
104. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
105. A light touch or stroke.
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1. Remaining after all deductions.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. A deep bow.
4. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
5. Small lynx of North America.
6. Not in good physical or mental health.
7. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
8. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
9. So adjusted as to be appropriate or brought into harmony.
10. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
11. Characteristic of a mob.
12. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
13. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
14. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
15. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
22. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
24. A planner who draws up a personal scheme of action.
27. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
31. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
33. Squash bugs.
34. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
36. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
38. Of or relating to a galaxy (especially our galaxy the Milky Way).
40. Make anew.
41. Of or relating to or in the manner of Erasmus.
42. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
46. An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.
47. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
50. Any location known for vice and corruption.
51. Wearing or provided with clothing.
53. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
56. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
57. A sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains.
58. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
62. An uproarious party.
67. Before noon.
68. A city is east central Sweden north northwest of Stockholm.
69. Lacking excess flesh.
71. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
73. Informal terms for clothing.
74. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
77. Coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude.
78. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
80. A genus of Laridae.
81. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
83. Jordan's port.
85. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
86. A cap with a flat circular top and a visor.
87. Having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty.
88. A state in New England.
89. The basic unit of money on Malta.
90. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
93. A city in northwestern Iran.
95. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
96. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
100. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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