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1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
4. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
8. The basic unit of money in Myanmar.
12. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
16. (informal) Of the highest quality.
17. (used as a sentenced connector) Therefore or consequently.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. Type genus of the Majidae.
20. A local computer network for communication between computers.
21. Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view.
22. One thousandth of a second.
23. The basic unit of money in Peru.
24. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
26. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
28. Horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window.
30. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
32. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
34. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
36. A shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus).
39. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
43. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
46. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
47. Guinea fowl.
50. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
51. A bachelor's degree in science.
52. The ending of a series or sequence.
56. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
57. Before noon.
58. An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration.
59. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
61. (of drugs) Through the mouth rather than through injection.
62. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
63. German philosopher (1776-1841).
65. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
67. Of or relating to the former Indo-European people.
68. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
69. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
71. (biology) Similarity because of common evolution.
74. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
80. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
81. Lower in esteem.
85. A historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain.
89. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
90. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
91. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
92. Tree of the genus Catalpa with large leaves and white flowers followed by long slender pods.
93. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
95. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
97. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
99. The third day of the week.
100. Having leadership guidance.
101. Something causes misery or death.
102. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
103. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
2. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
3. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
4. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
5. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
6. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
7. A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge.
8. God of love and erotic desire.
9. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
10. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
11. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
12. Type genus of the Amiidae.
13. Grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs.
14. Make reference to.
15. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
25. Rig used in drilling for oil or gas.
27. An awkward stupid person.
29. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
31. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates sperm-forming cells in male mammals.
33. Either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings.
35. A particularly difficult or baffling question or problem.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. (Judaism) A candelabrum with seven branches used in ceremonies to symbolize the seven days of creation.
40. A milkshake made with malt powder.
41. A polypeptide antibiotic (similar to bacitracin) obtained from a soil bacterium.
42. Break up or separate.
44. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
45. (botany) Outer tissue of bark.
48. Full of or showing high-spirited merriment.
49. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
53. South African writer (1903-1988).
54. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
55. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
57. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
60. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
64. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
66. In former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals.
70. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
72. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
73. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
75. Make less active or intense.
76. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
77. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
78. A slight amount or degree of difference.
79. Sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose.
82. (Welsh) Underworld god.
83. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
84. An informal term for a father.
86. The twelfth month of the civil year.
87. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
88. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
94. A public promotion of some product or service.
96. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
98. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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