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1. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. A disorderly outburst or tumult.
13. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
18. Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance.
19. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. Antihypertensive consisting of an alkaloid extracted from the plant Rauwolfia serpentina (trade names Raudixin or Rau-Sed or Sandril or Serpasil).
22. A B vitamin essential for the normal function of the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
25. A servant employed to do a variety of jobs.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. Mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs.
31. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
32. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
35. Compete for something.
36. Make attractive or lovable.
40. Greek mythology.
42. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
45. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
46. A town in north central Oklahoma.
49. An honorary degree in science.
50. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
51. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
52. A system of principles for philosophic or scientific investigations.
53. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
55. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
58. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
59. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
60. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
62. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
63. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
66. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
68. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
70. A large and imposing house.
71. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
72. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
78. Avatar of Vishnu.
81. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
85. The second largest city in Tunisia.
87. Rounded like an egg.
90. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
93. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
94. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
95. Type genus of the Amiidae.
97. A branch of the Tai languages.
98. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
99. The sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing a developing bud.
100. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
101. A person's brother or sister.
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1. (superlative of `good') Having the most positive qualities.
2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
3. Something causes misery or death.
4. A region in Finland and Russia between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea.
5. Armor plate that protects the chest.
6. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
7. Before noon.
8. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
9. Snarled or stalled in complete confusion.
10. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
11. A pendent spear of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water.
12. Shattered or torn up or torn apart violently as by e.g. wind or lightning or explosive.
13. Foolish gibberish.
14. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
15. A fraudulent business scheme.
21. Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak.
26. First in time.
29. Four books in the New Testament that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings.
30. A zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere between Taurus and Cancer on the ecliptic.
33. Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail.
34. The capital of Western Samoa.
37. A quantity of no importance.
38. Aimlessly drifting.
39. To say or state again.
41. Of or relating to the wrist.
43. A drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure.
44. German physicist who studied cathode rays (1862-1947).
47. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
48. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
54. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
56. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
57. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
61. A public promotion of some product or service.
64. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
65. City in northeast Pakistan.
67. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
68. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
69. Delicately iridescent thimble-shaped ctenophores.
73. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
74. (poetic) Still or calm.
75. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
76. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
77. A means of serving.
79. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
80. A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.
82. A large number or amount.
83. A genus of Indriidae.
84. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
86. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
88. Fiber of the flax plant that is made into thread and woven into linen fabric.
89. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
91. An enclosed space.
92. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
96. One million periods per second.
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