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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Lower in esteem.
9. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
13. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
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. Insignificantly small.
18. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
19. A shape that sags.
20. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
21. A Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle.
24. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
26. A small railroad car propelled by hand or by a small motor.
28. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
31. Of or relating to the songbirds n.
38. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
40. Crowd or pack to capacity.
44. Large spreading Old World tree having large leaves and globose clusters of greenish-yellow flowers and long seed pods that clatter in the wind.
45. One who helps or encourages or incites another.
46. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
47. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
49. Leave one's country of residence for a new one.
51. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
52. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
54. Chew the fat.
55. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
58. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
59. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
60. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
61. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
62. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
68. A state in midwestern United States.
69. Darkened with overcast.
70. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
73. (informal) Exceptionally good.
75. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
77. A public promotion of some product or service.
78. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
82. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
85. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
88. An organ in its earliest stage of development.
90. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
91. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
92. An inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people.
94. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
95. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
96. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
97. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
98. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
99. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
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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. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
5. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
6. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
7. Witnessed at first hand.
8. Half the width of an em.
9. God of death.
10. The sixth month of the civil year.
11. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
12. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
13. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
14. A mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high).
15. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
22. Nocturnal wildcat of Central and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat.
23. Wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person.
25. Mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds.
27. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
29. Type genus of the Anatidae.
30. Mites and ticks.
32. A breathing orifice.
33. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
34. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
35. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
36. (of water) Rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure.
37. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
39. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
41. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
42. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body.
43. South African mongoose-like viverrine having a face like a lemur and only four toes.
48. The act of ceding.
50. Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen).
53. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
56. Divulge information or secrets.
57. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
63. Adapt anew.
64. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
65. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
67. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
68. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
71. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
72. Made tough by habitual exposure.
74. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
76. With no effort to conceal.
79. The act of traveling by foot.
80. Wearing or provided with clothing.
81. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
83. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
84. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
86. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
87. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
89. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
93. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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