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1. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. A motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame.
13. Inquire about.
16. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
17. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
18. A ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars).
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. (computer science) Protocol that allows users to copy files between their local system and any system they can reach on the network.
21. A public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music.
22. Having been read.
23. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
24. A city in south central California in the San Joaquin Valley.
26. A port city in southwestern Iran.
29. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. The facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition.
33. A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme.
34. God of wealth and love.
37. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
41. Most important element.
44. A master's degree in business.
46. Cleaning with a mop.
48. Used especially in treating bruises.
50. Characterized by rough motion.
53. Income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments.
54. Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction.
56. A machine or person that adds.
57. How long something has existed.
58. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
60. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
62. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
63. The hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn.
65. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
68. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
69. A resident of Montana.
71. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
72. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
74. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
75. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
77. A genus of Ploceidae.
80. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
81. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
84. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
87. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
90. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
93. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
95. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
96. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
97. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
98. In bed.
99. An official at a baseball game.
100. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
101. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
102. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
103. A source of oil.
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1. Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist.
2. (prefix) Within.
3. 20 aspers equal 1 kuru.
4. Of people.
5. Woolly aphids.
6. A vehicle carrying many passengers.
7. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
8. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
9. Explorer and United States naval officer.
10. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
11. A festival featuring African-American culture.
12. Late time of life.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. God of love and erotic desire.
25. Used of locations.
27. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
28. (of a substance) Taken into and retained in another substance.
30. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
35. City in central Iran.
36. (Welsh) Underworld god.
38. Located at or near the back of an animal.
39. That is going in.
40. Youthful appearance in an old person.
42. French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982).
43. An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term).
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. A small nail.
49. Colloquial British abbreviation.
51. A member of the Uniat Church.
52. A reformed prostitute.
55. Son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil.
59. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
61. An unofficial association of people or groups.
64. Australian clover fern.
66. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
67. A loop in a rope.
70. Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
71. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
73. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
76. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
77. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
78. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
79. Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
82. A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink.
83. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
85. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
86. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
88. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
89. (informal) Having or revealing stupidity.
91. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
92. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
94. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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