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1. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
4. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
9. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
16. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
17. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
18. Type genus of the Ranidae.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. Ordinary writing as distinguished from verse.
22. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
23. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
24. A white crystalline powder (trade name Ethocaine) administered near nerves as a local anesthetic in dentistry and medicine.
27. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
29. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
30. Robber flies.
33. Remote and separate physically or socially.
36. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
37. Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist.
41. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
46. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
47. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
48. A person who delivers a speech or oration.
49. A Spanish title of respect for a man.
50. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
51. A drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure.
54. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
55. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
57. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
58. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
59. Any of a group of drugs commonly used as diuretics in the treatment of hypertension.
63. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
64. A heavy precious metallic element.
65. A small recess opening off a larger room.
68. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
71. Being one more than fifty.
72. The capital and largest city of the province of Alberta.
75. The basic unit of money in Macao.
77. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
79. English monk and scholar (672-735).
80. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
81. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn.
86. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
89. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
91. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
93. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
94. Denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units.
95. Lower in esteem.
96. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
97. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
98. An affirmative.
99. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
100. A small cake leavened with yeast.
101. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
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1. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
2. Perceive sound.
3. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
4. The striking of one body against another.
5. (architecture) Oldest and simplest of the three orders of classical Greek architecture.
6. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
7. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).
8. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
9. Of or relating to or involving an area.
10. A heathen (especially a Muslim).
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. The unit of plane angle adopted under the System International d'Unites.
13. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
14. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
25. A genus of birds of the family Alcedinidae.
26. Offspring of a male tiger and a female lion.
28. Someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold.
31. The female or generative principle.
32. 10 grams.
34. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
35. Agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central and South America and West Indies.
38. A medium (art or business) that disseminates moving pictures.
39. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect.
40. Of or relating to or characteristic of Europe or the people of Europe.
42. Omnivorous mammal of Central and South America.
43. A large fleet.
44. Small individual study area in a library.
45. Wearing away by friction.
52. Given or having a specified name.
53. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
56. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
60. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
61. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
62. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
66. Enchanter's nightshade.
67. Type genus of the Coerebidae.
69. Type genus of the Otariidae.
70. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
71. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
73. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
74. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
76. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
77. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
82. Type genus of the Anatidae.
83. Imprudently incurring risk.
84. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
85. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
87. A genus of Mustelidae.
88. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
90. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
92. A light touch or stroke.
93. An associate degree in nursing.
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