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1. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
4. Slanderous defamation.
9. One of the common people.
13. A castrated tomcat.
16. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
17. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
18. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
19. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
20. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
21. Insanely irresponsible.
23. United States humorist remembered for his homespun commentary on politics and American society (1879-1935).
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. Of or in or relating to the nose.
29. Relating to or used in or intended for trade or commerce.
30. An island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea.
33. The second day of the week.
34. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
36. A heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of Scotland).
42. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
44. A worker who turns pig iron into wrought iron by puddling.
48. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.
51. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
52. A doctor's degree in music.
53. A state in the eastern United States.
57. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
59. A city and port in northern Jutland.
62. Paint that provides a hard glossy transparent coating.
65. Flat and uninspiring.
67. Refuse to acknowledge.
70. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
71. A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal).
72. Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity).
73. Any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers.
76. Declare untrue.
77. Either extremity of something that has length.
79. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
81. Of or relating to the heart.
85. The sixth month of the civil year.
87. God of love and erotic desire.
91. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
92. An autocracy governed by two rulers.
95. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
97. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
98. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
99. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
101. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
102. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
103. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
104. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
105. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
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1. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
2. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
3. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
4. A vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels.
5. (informal) Roused to anger.
6. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
7. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
8. The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient).
9. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
10. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
11. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
12. A slipper that is soft and wool (for babies).
13. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
14. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
15. Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles.
22. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
24. A city in southeastern Spain.
26. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
28. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.
31. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. The month following August and preceding October.
35. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
37. The basic unit of money in Indonesia.
38. That is to say.
39. Combine into one.
40. Herbs or shrubs or small trees.
41. A quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators.
43. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
45. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
46. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
47. Dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa.
54. Serving as or forming a base.
55. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
56. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
58. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
60. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
63. Having a nose (either literal or metaphoric) especially of a specified kind.
64. A family of birds of the suborder Oscines.
66. United States author (born 1932).
68. Being nine more than eighty.
69. The basic unit of money in Romania.
74. Not only so, but.
75. Covered with paving material.
78. Israeli general and statesman (1915-1981).
79. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
80. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
82. In bed.
83. Avatar of Vishnu.
84. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
85. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
86. Two items of the same kind.
88. Type genus of the Anatidae.
89. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
90. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
93. Decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor.
94. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
96. Used of a single unit or thing.
100. Unknown god.
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