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1. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
4. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
9. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
13. The sign language used in the United States.
16. A quantity of money.
17. Terminate before completion, as of a computer process, a mission, etc..
18. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
19. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
20. A rapid bustling commotion.
21. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
22. (Sumerian) Sun god.
23. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
24. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
26. Pull back or move away or backward.
27. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
29. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
31. Bound by contract.
33. A grant made by a law court.
34. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
36. Not only so, but.
37. A radioactive transuranic element.
39. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
44. A genus of Mustelidae.
46. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
48. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
50. The sixth month of the civil year.
52. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
53. Economic independence as a national policy.
55. A short personal letter.
56. United States parapsychologist (1895-1980).
58. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
60. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
61. English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897).
62. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
63. American novelist (1909-1955).
66. Singing popular songs accompanied by a recording of an orchestra (usually in bars or nightclubs).
69. Covered with paving material.
72. A public promotion of some product or service.
73. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
76. A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another.
78. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
82. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
85. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
86. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
87. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
89. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
93. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
94. Advanced in years.
95. Loss of hair (especially on the head) or wool or feathers.
96. (Greek mythology) God of love.
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1. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
2. Father of the storm gods Marut.
3. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
4. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. At or to or toward the front.
7. Canadian literary critic interested in the use of myth and symbolism (1912-1991).
8. Lacking motor coordination.
9. Any taillike structure.
10. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body.
11. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
12. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
13. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
14. Building material used as siding or roofing.
15. Medication (trade name Lopid) used to lower the levels of triglyceride in the blood.
25. A barn for cows.
28. German physiologist and histologist who in 1839 identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and animal tissue (1810-1882).
30. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
32. Easily irritated or annoyed.
35. A picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene.
38. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
40. To gain with effort.
41. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
42. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
43. (music) Having frets.
45. German bacteriologist who described a disease now known as Reiter's syndrome and who identified the spirochete that causes syphilis in humans (1881-1969).
47. An acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands.
49. An acknowledgment of appreciation.
51. Quietly in concealment.
54. Fairy shrimp.
57. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
59. Of or relating to or characteristic of Israel or its people.
64. A green transparent form of beryl.
65. Fiddler crabs.
67. The residue that remains when something is burned.
68. Only the bowfins.
69. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
70. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
71. King of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410).
74. Left-hand page.
75. Of or like a feeble old woman.
77. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
79. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
80. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
81. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
83. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
84. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
88. The cry made by sheep.
89. A state in midwestern United States.
90. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
91. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
92. Being one more than one hundred.
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