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1. A small drink of liquor.
4. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
8. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
12. A powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon.
16. The seed of the cereal grass.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. The habitation of wild animals.
19. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
20. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
22. A building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks.
25. (informal) Exceptionally good.
28. Being one more than one hundred.
30. Having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty.
32. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
35. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
37. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
40. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
41. A midwestern state in north central United States.
42. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
44. Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
46. An instinctive motive.
49. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
51. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
52. Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage.
53. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
55. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
57. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
58. Of or at or relating to an anode.
60. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
62. Any admirable quality or attribute.
64. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
65. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
66. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
67. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
68. An abbreviation for `hazardous material' used on warning signs.
70. A linen tape used for trimming as a decoration.
71. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
72. Half the width of an em.
73. A public promotion of some product or service.
75. (Scotland) Made of sheep's or calf's viscera minced with oatmeal and suet and onions and boiled in the animal's stomach.
79. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
82. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
86. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
88. A warning against certain acts.
92. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
94. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
96. Baby bed with high sides.
97. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
98. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
99. Informal terms for the mouth.
100. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
101. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
102. Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856).
103. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
2. The eighth month of the civil year.
3. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
4. The longest division of geological time.
5. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
6. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
7. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
8. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
9. God of death.
10. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
11. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
12. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
13. A dark brown to greenish oleoresin that has a fragrant odor and is used as a fixative in perfumes.
14. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
15. European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye.
21. Gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers.
23. British informal term.
24. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
26. Call upon in supplication.
27. The cry made by sheep.
29. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
31. A native or inhabitant of the Ukraine.
33. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
34. Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980).
36. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
38. Of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture.
39. (Hinduism) Term of respect for a Brahmin sage.
43. Russian Soviet leader.
45. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
47. 100 groszy equal 1 zloty.
48. Enthusiastic approval.
50. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
54. An excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth.
56. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
59. A port city in southwestern Iran.
61. A small amount of residue.
63. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
69. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
70. The longest division of geological time.
74. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
75. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
76. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
77. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
78. Extremely cold.
80. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
81. A genus of Indriidae.
83. A member of a people in India living in Orissa and neighboring areas.
84. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
85. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
87. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
89. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
90. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
91. Type genus of the Anatidae.
92. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
93. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
95. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
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