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1. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
4. Intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests.
9. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
13. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
16. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
17. A city in Veneto.
18. A French abbot.
19. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
20. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
21. Devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence.
23. A refund of some fraction of the amount paid.
25. Advanced in years.
27. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
29. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
30. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
32. One or some or every or all without specification.
33. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
35. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
37. A category in some early taxonomies.
41. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
43. An Asian country under the control of China.
47. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
48. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
49. (Roman Catholic Church) The supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
50. A rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag.
52. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
53. Not out.
54. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
56. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
57. Someone who travels by air.
58. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
60. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
62. The basic unit of money in Iran.
64. Considerate and solicitous care.
65. Large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit.
67. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
69. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
70. Intrude in other people's affairs or business.
73. The arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair).
75. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
76. Of or relating to or involving an area.
78. Asian rat snakes.
79. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
81. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
84. Loud confused noise from many sources.
89. Not suitable for food.
93. Informal terms for a meal.
94. A city in the western Netherlands.
96. East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks.
97. Black tropical American cuckoo.
99. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
101. Being two more than fifty.
102. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
103. (with `in') Guardianship over.
104. A small cake leavened with yeast.
105. A doctor's degree in education.
106. A state in midwestern United States.
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1. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
2. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
3. Cease an action temporarily.
4. An accountant certified by the state.
5. Any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed.
6. The content of cognition.
7. A Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam.
8. A formal expression of praise.
9. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
10. A Russian river.
11. (used of texts) Shortened by condensing or rewriting.
12. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
13. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
14. Stalk of a moss capsule.
15. A branch of the Tai languages.
22. Lacking self-confidence.
24. (statistics) Of a distribution.
26. Tall East Indian cedar having spreading branches with nodding tips.
28. Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system.
31. Half the width of an em.
34. An associate degree in nursing.
36. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
38. Free from filth and pathogens.
39. Segmented worms.
40. American black bears.
42. Prevent from being seen or discovered.
44. Divulge information or secrets.
45. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
46. Small genus of North American herbs having mostly basal leaves and slender racemes of delicate white flowers.
51. Dwell (archaic).
55. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
59. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
61. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
63. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
66. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
68. On the inside.
71. Deteriorated by decay or rot.
72. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
74. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
77. Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.
80. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
82. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
83. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
85. Type genus of the Ranidae.
86. Of or relating to near the ear.
87. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
88. Cut down with an ax.
89. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
90. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
91. Set down according to a plan.
92. A town in north central Oklahoma.
95. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
98. A state in New England.
100. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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