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1. (informal) Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman.
4. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
8. The compass point that is one point west of northwest.
12. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
16. A rapid bustling commotion.
17. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
18. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
20. A tenant who holds a lease.
22. Something done (usually as opposed to something said).
24. The lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg.
25. Goddess of love and fecundity.
28. Cause to lose one's nerve.
30. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
32. Become wider.
36. Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal.
40. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
41. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
44. United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947).
46. A state in New England.
49. 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.
50. Being nine more than forty.
51. God of death.
53. Uttering in an irritated tone.
54. The subject matter of a conversation or discussion.
56. Speak in a nasal voice.
59. A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu.
60. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
62. Lower in esteem.
64. Free from dirt or impurities.
65. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
67. The period during which something is functional (as between birth and death).
70. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
71. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
73. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
74. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
75. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
77. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
79. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
81. An attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rack.
84. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
86. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
88. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
91. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
93. A Hindu prince or king in India.
95. A boy or man.
96. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
97. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
98. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
99. Being one more than two.
100. The content of cognition.
101. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
102. A small cake leavened with yeast.
103. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
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1. Young of domestic cattle.
2. A European river.
3. A woman poseur.
4. Conceived of or imagined or hoped for.
5. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
6. Informal terms for a mother.
7. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
8. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
9. Sound of something in rapid motion.
10. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
11. The compass point that is one point north of due west.
12. Release from a clasp.
13. A person of French descent.
14. A characteristic state or mode of living.
15. (informal) Subject to accident or chance or change.
21. A syntactic string that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit.
23. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
26. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. An associate degree in nursing.
31. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
33. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
34. An organized body of related information.
35. A book of the New Testament.
37. A small hairpiece to cover partial baldness.
38. Fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo.
39. Someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations.
42. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
43. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
45. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
47. Of or relating to or involving an area.
48. Transient cessation of respiration.
52. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
55. Someone who performs a service or does a favor.
57. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
58. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
63. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
66. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
67. Conceived of or imagined or hoped for.
68. Drug (trade name Isuprel) used to treat bronchial asthma and to stimulate the heart.
69. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
72. The cry made by sheep.
76. A genus of Scolopacidae.
78. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
80. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
82. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
83. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
84. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
85. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
87. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
89. The habitation of wild animals.
90. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
92. A genetic disorder of metabolism.
94. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
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