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1. A federally chartered savings bank.
4. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
9. South African term for `boss'.
13. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
16. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
17. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
18. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
21. Jordan's port.
22. Cut off the testicles.
23. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
24. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
26. Gull family.
29. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
31. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
32. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
33. Cause to run off the tracks.
37. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
41. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
42. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
44. A hazy or indistinct representation.
45. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. (computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
53. Outstanding United States athlete (1914-1956).
55. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
56. A liquid solution that results from elution.
58. The eleventh month of the civil year.
59. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
60. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
61. A saying of Jesus that is regarded as authentic although it is not recorded in the Gospels.
62. A slipper that is soft and wool (for babies).
64. The time of life between the ages of 12 and 20.
67. A riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing).
68. 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.
69. An associate degree in nursing.
70. Suggestive of the supernatural.
71. A state in New England.
75. A motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities.
76. A state in midwestern United States.
78. Canadian writer noted for his analyses of the mass media (1911-1980).
79. Having leaves or leaves as specified.
83. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
85. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
86. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
89. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
91. Islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal.
94. A local computer network for communication between computers.
95. Originally a stronghold captured by David (the 2nd king of the Israelites).
96. Located in or toward the back or rear.
98. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
99. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
100. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
101. Flowing in drops.
102. By bad luck.
103. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
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1. Food for domestic livestock.
2. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
3. Someone whose employment involves carrying something.
4. Cooking in simmering liquid.
5. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
6. The basic unit of money in Iran.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
9. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
10. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
11. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
12. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
13. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
14. A French abbot.
15. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
25. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
27. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
28. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
34. A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution.
35. System founded in Persia in the 6th century b.c. by Zoroaster.
36. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
38. A written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court law asking for the grievance to be redressed.
39. Relating to, or coming from, Europe and Asia.
40. Resembling the new moon in shape.
43. The fine downy hair covering a human fetus.
46. A long-handled edge tool with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper.
47. An Iranian language spoken in Pakistan and Iran and Afghanistan and Russia and the Persian gulf.
48. A chronic disease of the nose characterized by a foul-smelling nasal discharge and atrophy of nasal structures.
49. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
52. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
54. Admit openly and bluntly.
57. Relating to totemism.
63. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
65. (Hinduism and Buddhism) The beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation.
66. Being one more than six.
72. Grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units.
73. A copper-nickel alloy with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient.
74. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
77. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
80. English essayist (1775-1834).
81. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
82. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
84. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
87. A small cake leavened with yeast.
88. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
90. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
92. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
93. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
97. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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