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1. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
4. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
9. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
13. Informal terms for a mother.
16. God of the earth.
17. An addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy.
18. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
19. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
20. A colorless water-soluble glutinous protein obtained from animal tissues such as bone and skin.
22. A historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan.
24. Long and light rowing boat.
25. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
26. Of or relating to a caduceus.
29. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
31. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
32. A white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers.
34. Used of old persons or old trees.
39. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
40. Make anew.
41. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.
48. Being one more than three.
49. A breast-shaped mass of padding worn in a brassiere.
50. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
52. Type genus of the Majidae.
54. Make too high an estimate of.
55. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
56. A rapid bustling commotion.
58. An elaborate song for solo voice.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
60. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
61. An appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food.
63. An indistinct shapeless form.
67. Related on the mother's side.
72. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
74. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
76. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
78. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
79. The name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name).
81. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
85. Of parents and children.
89. Having two axes.
90. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
92. A negative.
93. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
94. East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok.
96. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
97. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
98. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
99. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
100. A small cake leavened with yeast.
101. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
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1. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
2. The short weak cry of a young bird.
3. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
4. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
5. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
6. Tropical Asian starlings.
7. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
8. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
9. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
10. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
11. Complacently or inanely foolish.
12. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
13. A medium for oil-paints.
14. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
15. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
21. Tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries.
23. Fiddler crabs.
27. A person or organization that causes pollution of the environment.
28. All of the inhabitants of the earth.
30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
33. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. A resident of Nevada.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
38. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
42. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
43. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
44. French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791).
45. Sour or bitter in taste.
46. Proboscis monkeys.
47. Be a signal for or a symptom of.
51. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
53. (Old Testament) Jonah did not wish to become a prophet so God caused a great storm to throw him overboard from a ship.
57. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
62. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
64. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
65. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living between Lake Chaplain and the Saint Lawrence River.
66. A manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer.
68. Heal or recover.
69. An associate degree in nursing.
70. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
71. The basic unit of money in Honduras.
73. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
75. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
77. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
78. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
80. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
82. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
83. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
84. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
86. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
87. Characteristic of false pride.
88. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
91. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
95. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
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