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1. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
4. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
9. A thrusting blow with a knife.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
17. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
18. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
19. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
20. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
24. The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.
26. Italian operatic composer (1813-1901).
27. On or toward the lee.
28. Pearl oysters.
30. A Russian river.
32. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
33. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
35. (British) Colloquial terms for an umbrella.
38. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
41. A liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent.
43. An uproarious party.
44. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
45. Again but in a new or different way.
46. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
47. Distant in either space or time.
49. Acid gritty-textured fruit.
51. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
53. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
55. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
56. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
57. Any plant of the genus Erica.
59. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
62. Black tropical American cuckoo.
63. Load anew with ammunition, "She reloaded the gun carefully".
66. Dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France.
70. (prefix) Within.
71. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
74. A city in northern India.
75. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
76. Brilliantly colored south Asian pheasant.
77. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
81. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
83. A long monotonous harangue.
86. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
88. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
92. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
93. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
96. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
98. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
99. Very attentive or observant.
100. Type genus of the Majidae.
102. Irritate or vex.
103. Towards the side away from the wind.
104. A daughter of your brother or sister.
105. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
106. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
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1. The fourth or lowest deck.
2. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
3. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
4. The capital and largest city of Mozambique.
5. Relating to the abomasum (the fourth compartment of the stomach of ruminants).
6. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
7. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
8. Before noon.
9. Any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit.
10. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. A bachelor's degree in religion.
13. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
14. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
15. American novelist (1909-1955).
21. A written agreement (or property or money) delivered to a third party or put in trust by one party to a contract to be returned after fulfillment of some condition.
22. Loud confused noise from many sources.
23. Large semi-evergreen tree of East India.
25. An associate degree in nursing.
29. Indigo bush.
31. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
34. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
36. Sauce for pasta.
37. (British) The keeper of a public house.
39. A bee that is a a member of the genus Andrena.
40. An organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment much changed from that in which it originated.
42. A sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid.
48. A soft silvery metallic element.
50. Similar to the color of a ripe orange.
52. The cry made by sheep.
54. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
58. Of superior grade.
60. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
61. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
64. Rate of revolution of a motor.
65. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
67. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
68. A great raja.
69. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
72. Provide commentary for a film, for example.
73. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
78. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
79. A just detectable amount.
80. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
82. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
84. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
85. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
87. Fallow deer.
89. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
90. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
91. A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.
94. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
95. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
97. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
101. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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