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1. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
4. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
9. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
13. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers.
18. Young of domestic cattle.
19. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
20. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
22. A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence.
25. British composer (1857-1934).
26. A nation in northern North America.
28. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
31. Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet.
34. German musician who developed a system for teaching music to children (1895-1982).
37. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
41. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
44. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
45. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
48. Large Himalayan goat with large spiraled horns.
50. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
51. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high).
53. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
54. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
56. Type genus of the family Ulvaceae.
57. The basic unit of money in Nicaragua.
60. An embarrassing mistake.
62. Echo repeatedly, echo again and again.
64. (Greek mythology) The beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris.
65. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
66. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
67. Shaped like a ring.
69. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
70. Suitable for or suggestive of singing.
73. An area of low mountains in northwestern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma.
76. Type genus of the Anatidae.
80. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
82. Affectedly dainty or refined.
84. Women's underwear and nightclothes.
87. A bundle of nerve fibers following a path through the brain.
89. Someone who admires a young woman.
90. Take in solid food.
91. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
92. Order by virtue of superior authority.
94. The British system of withholding tax.
95. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
96. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
97. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
98. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
99. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
2. Shout loudly and without restraint.
3. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
4. Type genus of the Coerebidae.
5. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
6. An East Indian sailor.
7. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
8. Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward.
9. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
10. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
11. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
12. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
13. A notable achievement.
14. Fallow deer.
15. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
21. With rapid movements.
23. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
24. The 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
27. An informal term for a father.
29. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
30. A radioactive transuranic element.
32. Dependent on chance.
33. Swiss psychologist remembered for his studies of cognitive development in children (1896-1980).
35. Avatar of Vishnu.
36. Perennial evergreen herbs with white or pink flowers.
38. A cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred).
39. Any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill.
40. Type genus of the Serranidae.
42. Compelled forcibly by an outside agency.
43. A state in northwestern North America.
46. Grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units.
47. American filmmaker and comic actor (1935- ).
49. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
52. A patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated.
55. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
58. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
59. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
61. Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood.
63. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
68. 1 species.
69. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
71. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
72. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
74. The capital of Croatia.
75. Read anew.
77. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
78. Type genus of the Elopidae.
79. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
81. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
83. English poet who introduced the sonnet form to English literature (1503-1542).
84. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
85. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
86. Make an etching of.
88. A common cyst of the skin.
93. A New England state.
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