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1. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
4. When two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot the results is called `craps' or `snake eyes'.
9. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
13. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
16. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
17. A unit of weight used in some parts of Asia.
18. The sixth month of the civil year.
19. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
20. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
21. (slang) A batch of things that go together.
23. City in northeast Pakistan.
25. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
27. A powerful light with reflector.
28. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
29. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
31. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
32. A former French unit of area.
34. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
39. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
40. Fiddler crabs.
42. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
43. (sports) Someone in charge of training an athlete or a team.
47. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
48. A river in southeastern France.
51. The ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail.
54. Having been flattened.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
60. Give qualities or abilities to.
62. A strong emotion.
63. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
64. Fruit of the oak tree.
65. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
66. Of or being the lowest female voice.
68. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
70. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
73. A stock exchange in New York.
74. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
75. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
77. Being one more than two.
79. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
80. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
82. Covered with paving material.
85. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
89. Made by polymerizing butadiene.
91. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
94. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
96. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
99. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
100. An Eskimo hut.
101. The act of giving a false appearance.
103. The basic unit of money in Iran.
104. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
105. Having no body.
106. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
2. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
3. Irish abbess.
4. The unit of frequency.
5. Evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania.
6. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
7. Large American feline resembling a lion.
8. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
9. South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax.
10. A public promotion of some product or service.
11. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
12. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
13. A coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current.
14. Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa Asia and Australia.
15. An active and efficient cause.
22. In addition.
24. The condition of being haploid.
26. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
30. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
33. Law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions.
35. In the recent past.
36. Point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch).
37. South American caracara.
38. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
41. Belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease.
44. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
45. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
46. The quantity of information that a head will hold.
49. (prefix) Within.
50. A state in New England.
52. United States playwright (1906-1963).
53. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
55. The first light of day.
56. A portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs).
59. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
61. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
67. (Greek mythology) A tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta.
68. The unit of frequency.
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
71. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
72. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
73. A coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current.
76. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
78. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
81. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
83. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
84. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
86. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
87. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
88. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
90. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
92. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
93. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
95. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
97. Black tropical American cuckoo.
98. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
102. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
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