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1. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
4. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
8. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
12. In a competent capable manner.
16. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
17. A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown.
18. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
19. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
20. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
22. A rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag.
24. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
25. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
27. Virility drug (trade name Viagra) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men.
29. The range within which a voice can be heard.
31. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
33. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
34. A white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2).
36. (Greek mythology) The Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry.
39. Thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game.
42. Make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground.
46. A public promotion of some product or service.
47. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
49. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
51. A growth in strength or number or importance.
52. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
55. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. Plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits.
59. A small natural hill.
61. Largest known toad species.
63. An enclosed space.
64. A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.
65. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
66. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust.
68. Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure.
70. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
75. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
76. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
77. Submerged freshwater perennials.
79. A tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game.
82. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
83. The compass point that is one point west of northwest.
84. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
88. The honeycreepers.
92. Feed excessively.
94. Of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples.
96. A master's degree in business.
97. Extremely robust.
98. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
100. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
101. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
102. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
103. Young sheep.
104. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
105. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. Of or relating to or characteristic of Israel or its people.
4. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
5. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
6. An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling).
7. Type genus of the Meliaceae.
8. Become more extreme.
9. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
10. 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.
11. Either extremity of something that has length.
12. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
13. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
14. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed.
15. A group of language of the Hokan family in Arizona and California and Mexico.
21. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
23. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
26. An arc-shaped whitish deposit sometimes seen in the cornea.
28. A unit of pressure.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
32. A tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia.
35. Cause to combine with iodine.
37. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
38. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
40. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
41. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
43. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
44. A member of the nomadic Ugrian people living in northwestern Siberia (east of the Ural mountains).
45. (plural) Any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.
48. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
50. Infusion of e.g. dried or fresh flowers or leaves.
53. The time period between dawn and noon.
54. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
56. Plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped gray and green and white warty rinds.
58. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
60. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
62. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
67. A woman lunatic.
69. A package of several things tied together for carrying or storing.
71. Of heavy boots.
72. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
73. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
74. The dignity or rank or position of a duke.
78. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
80. Chromatic purity.
81. Flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds.
85. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
86. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
87. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
89. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
90. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
91. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
92. A state in midwestern United States.
93. A vote that blocks a decision.
95. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
99. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
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