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1. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
4. A stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably).
9. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
13. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
16. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
17. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
18. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
21. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
22. Slightly open.
23. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
24. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
26. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
27. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
33. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
35. Indicating the most important performer or role.
37. An indication of approved or superior status.
40. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
44. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
47. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
48. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
50. A nitrogen-containing base found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine.
52. Tall hat.
54. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. (Roman mythology) The twin brother of Romulus.
57. Fried quickly in a little fat.
58. Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980).
60. A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River.
63. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
64. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
65. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
66. Used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son.
68. Capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria.
71. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
73. A blow that renders the opponent unconscious.
74. Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell.
75. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
77. Symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue.
80. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
81. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
83. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
84. Of or pertaining to adnexa.
91. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
94. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
95. A special way of doing something.
97. The capital of Western Samoa.
99. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
100. Being of delicate or slender build.
101. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
102. The bottom of a shoe or boot.
103. The fatty flesh of eel.
104. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
105. A small cake leavened with yeast.
106. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
107. The seventh and last day of the week.
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1. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. Prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens.
4. A master's degree in education.
5. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
6. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
7. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
8. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
9. A major god.
10. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
11. Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.
12. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
13. Offering fun and gaiety.
14. Speaking a Slavic language.
15. Avatar of Vishnu.
25. Hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia.
28. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
29. The southern part of the ancient Palestine succeeding the kingdom of Judah.
32. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
34. English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820).
36. Pose a threat to.
38. Genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers.
39. Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922).
41. Any of various plants of the genus Albuca having large clusters of pale yellow flowers.
42. A United States youth subculture of the 1950s.
43. A fibrous amphibole.
46. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
49. Minor or subordinate.
51. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
53. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
56. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
59. British informal term.
61. A Russian river.
62. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
67. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
69. State of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options.
70. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
72. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
76. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
78. Small genus of tropical African perennial bulbous herbs with deciduous twining stems.
79. Imperial moths.
80. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
82. (informal usage) A general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction.
83. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
85. A small replica of a person.
86. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
87. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
88. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
89. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
90. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
92. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
93. A person who is not very bright.
96. Tag the base runner to get him out.
98. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
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