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1. Used of a single unit or thing.
4. The brightest star in Virgo.
9. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
16. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
17. British composer (1857-1934).
18. A humorous anecdote or remark.
19. The month following March and preceding May.
20. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
21. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
22. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
23. Being one more than two.
24. A milk protein used in making e.g. plastics and adhesives.
26. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. More or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first.
31. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
33. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
39. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
48. A river that rises in eastern Kansas and flows eastward into Oklahoma to become a tributary of the Arkansas River.
50. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
54. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
55. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
57. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
58. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
60. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
62. Towards the side away from the wind.
63. Used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son.
64. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
65. A river that rises in France and flows northeast across Belgium and empties into the North Sea.
68. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
70. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
71. A blind god.
73. A Russian river.
75. Regional and archaic.
79. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
80. A soft silvery metallic element.
86. Give qualities or abilities to.
87. The last (12th) month of the year.
89. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
91. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
93. An account describing incidents or events.
94. The residue that remains when something is burned.
95. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
96. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
97. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
98. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
99. An opening into or through something.
100. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
101. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. An implement used to erase something.
4. (prefix) Half or partial.
5. German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory (1858-1947).
6. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
7. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
8. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
9. A genus of Platalea.
10. A genus of Ploceidae.
11. Relating to bees or beekeeping.
12. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
13. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
14. Plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson).
15. Of short duration or distance.
25. Imperial moths.
27. Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder.
30. The capital and largest city of Japan.
32. Indigo bush.
34. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
40. Relating to or near the ulna.
41. Have in common.
42. A hat tied under the chin.
44. A cloth having a crisscross design.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. Large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil.
47. A member of the Uniat Church.
49. Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
51. United States tennis player who won women's singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954).
52. A metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters.
53. Squash bugs.
56. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
59. Tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song.
61. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
66. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
67. Having few if any teeth.
68. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
69. A state in New England.
72. Excessively fat.
74. English monk and scholar (672-735).
76. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
77. Subject to a ruling authority.
78. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
81. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
82. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
83. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
84. The sixth month of the civil year.
85. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
88. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
90. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
92. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
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