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1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. Italian poet who wrote an epic poem about the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (1544-1595).
9. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
13. Not reflecting light.
16. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
17. Low land that is seasonally flooded.
18. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
21. American dramatist (1928- ).
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
24. The eighth month of the civil year.
26. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
29. A German city near Leipzig.
33. A small net that some women wear over their hair to keep it in place.
38. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
43. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
45. The Mon-Khmer language spoken in Cambodia.
47. In operation or operational.
48. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
51. A caustic substance (Ca(OH)2) produced by heating limestone.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. The lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level.
56. By bad luck.
60. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
61. A state in the eastern United States.
62. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
64. Any admirable quality or attribute.
65. The seventh month of the civil year.
67. Regional and archaic.
68. Law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions.
69. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
71. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
73. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
74. Not out.
76. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
79. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
82. Roman general who commanded the fleet that defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium (63-12 BC).
89. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
91. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
92. A light-weight hat worn in tropical countries for protection from the sun.
93. Testacean rhizopods.
95. A Loloish language.
96. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
97. A great rani.
98. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
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1. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
2. Kill intentionally and with premeditation.
3. Occurring or extending throughout a city.
4. The wife or widow of a czar.
5. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
6. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
7. Slanderous defamation.
8. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
11. Small songbirds resembling larks.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
25. A cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas.
27. A radioactive transuranic element.
28. All the loaves of bread baked at the same time.
30. A master's degree in education.
31. A broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. Imperfect development.
35. An associate degree in nursing.
36. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
37. Someone who tells a story.
39. Of or relating to the gonads.
40. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
41. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.
44. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
46. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
49. A flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions.
50. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
52. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
55. For fear that.
57. A characteristic state or mode of living.
58. The square of a body of any size of type.
59. A beautiful and graceful girl.
63. A disease of infants and young children.
66. Subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration.
67. The wife or widow of a czar.
70. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
72. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
75. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
76. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
77. New Zealand conifer.
78. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
79. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
80. On, to, or at the top.
81. A slow pace of running.
83. A wound made by cutting.
84. Type genus of the Rutaceae.
85. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
86. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
87. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
88. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
90. A unit of pressure.
91. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
94. Half the width of an em.
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