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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Goddess of fertility.
8. Common Indian weaverbird.
12. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
16. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
17. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
18. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
19. An Asian river between China and Russia.
20. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
21. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
23. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
24. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
25. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
27. A town in western Kentucky on the Ohio River.
30. The limits within which something can be effective.
33. Someone who skis.
36. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
38. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
39. A substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned.
41. A public promotion of some product or service.
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
45. A thermionic tube having two electrodes.
46. Of or relating to or characteristic of ancient Carthage or its people or their language.
50. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
51. A code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail.
54. Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk.
55. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
56. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
58. A police officer who investigates crimes.
59. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
61. Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948).
62. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
66. Walk stealthily.
67. Avatar of Vishnu.
68. A judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate.
71. An associate degree in nursing.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
74. A minute vein continuous with a capillary.
76. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
78. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
82. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
84. Take control of.
88. (Middle Eastern) Small croquette of mashed chick peas or fava beans seasoned with sesame seeds.
91. The basic unit of money in Macao.
93. A human limb.
94. Report or maintain.
95. A small cake leavened with yeast.
97. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
98. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
99. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
100. A fraudulent business scheme.
101. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
102. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. The highest level or degree attainable.
4. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
5. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
6. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
7. The Indic language of the Sindhi people.
8. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. Not only so, but.
11. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
12. A woman's large folded hooped hood.
13. Tropical African herbs.
14. The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.
15. Large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits.
22. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
26. Of or relating to a creed.
28. A family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa.
29. An accidental happening.
31. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
32. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
34. Knitted clothing.
35. Relating to or having the characteristics on an icon.
37. A woman's silk or lace scarf.
40. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
43. Any seed plant yielding balsam.
44. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
47. Goddess of dawn.
48. United States songwriter and playwright famous for his patriotic songs (1878-1942).
49. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
52. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
53. Type genus of the Coerebidae.
57. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
60. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
63. French philosopher and theologian.
64. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
65. (Sumerian) Sun god.
69. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and a progestin compound.
70. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
73. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
75. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
77. An honorary arts degree.
79. Jordan's port.
80. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
81. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
83. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
85. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
86. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
87. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
89. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
90. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
91. An expression of greeting.
92. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
96. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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