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1. A United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces.
4. Signal going into an electronic system.
9. A natural protective covering of the body.
13. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
18. Any cone-shaped artifact.
19. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
20. The Spanish Navy was destroyed by France and England while attempting to recover Sicily and Sardinia from Italy (1719).
22. In a hasty and foolhardy manner.
24. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
25. Surpass in speed.
26. The boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
28. Take in solid food.
29. Minor or subordinate.
31. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
32. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
35. The cry made by sheep.
37. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
41. An informal term for a father.
42. Covered with scabs.
45. An edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter).
46. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
48. A Loloish language.
50. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
51. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
52. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
53. One of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participates in a group organization).
55. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
57. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
60. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
62. A cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment.
63. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
65. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
66. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
67. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
68. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
70. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
71. Best of its kind on record.
75. Indigo bush.
77. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
78. Lack of sight.
79. A genus of Ploceidae.
83. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
85. Articles of commerce.
88. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
91. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
92. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
93. A collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display.
95. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
98. Capital and largest city of the Ukraine.
99. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
100. A fraudulent business scheme.
101. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
102. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
2. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
3. Affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste.
4. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
5. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
6. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
7. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
8. Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage.
9. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
10. Plant cultivated for its enlarged fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem.
11. An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands).
12. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
13. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
21. An ancient Greek city famous for military prowess.
23. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
27. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
30. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
33. A small flat file for shaping the nails.
34. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
36. Little known Kamarupan languages.
38. (usually preceded by `in') A detail or point.
39. Animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium.
40. The condition of having no arms.
43. A telegram sent abroad.
44. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
47. A medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. Duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females.
56. A large and noisy party of people.
58. An island in Antigua and Barbuda.
59. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
61. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
64. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
69. 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).
70. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
72. 1/10 gram.
73. A downhill race over a winding course defined by upright poles.
74. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
76. Evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the Himalaya.
80. Type genus of the Anatidae.
81. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
82. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
84. Having been read.
86. A person who acts and gets things done.
87. The act of preventing the opposition from scoring (in sports).
89. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
90. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
94. Being ten more than eighty.
96. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
97. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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