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1. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
4. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
9. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
16. A clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped.
17. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
18. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
19. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
20. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
21. Capital of modern Macedonia.
23. Photographic equipment consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other.
25. Small tropical flea.
27. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
29. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
30. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
32. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
34. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
35. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
39. A surface burn.
43. A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip).
47. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
48. An expression of greeting.
49. God of fire.
50. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
52. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
54. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform.
55. Enter into a list of prospective jurors.
57. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
58. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
60. A town in north central Oklahoma.
62. A negative.
63. Fill beyond capacity.
66. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
68. Of or in or relating to the nose.
69. Provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction.
71. (used of especially horses) Having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray.
72. (Scottish) A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains).
74. Lacking in rigor or strictness.
75. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
77. The lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs.
80. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
81. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
85. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
86. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
90. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
91. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
92. State capital of New York.
94. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
95. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
96. A metal spike with a hole for a rope.
99. A Loloish language.
101. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
102. Large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber.
103. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
104. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
105. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. A thin coat of water-base paint.
3. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
4. Accumulate on the surface.
5. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
6. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
7. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
8. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
9. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
10. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
11. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
12. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
13. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
14. Affected manners intended to impress others.
15. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
22. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
24. (Judaism) A candelabrum with seven branches used in ceremonies to symbolize the seven days of creation.
26. Relating to or characteristic of the Celts.
28. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
31. Excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm.
33. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
36. Characteristic of a region.
37. A female ballet dancer.
38. Informal terms for a mother.
40. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
41. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
42. A major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts.
44. Goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis.
45. (of fabrics) Having soft nap produced by brushing.
46. A salt of any halogen acid.
51. A membrane (one of 3) that envelops the brain and spinal cord.
53. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
56. A midwestern state on the Great Plains.
59. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
61. An informal term for a father.
64. Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930).
65. Arrange in tabular form.
67. In a drab manner.
70. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
73. A person forced to flee from home or country.
76. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
78. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
79. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
82. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
83. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
84. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
87. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
88. In bed.
89. God of death.
93. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
97. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
98. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
100. A radioactive transuranic element.
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