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1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. Dress or groom with elaborate care.
9. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
13. A flexible container with a single opening.
16. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
17. A Nilotic language.
18. Chief port of Yemen.
19. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
20. Having leadership guidance.
21. An electric motor for starting an engine.
23. The production of eggs (especially in birds).
25. A fraudulent business scheme.
27. A salt or ester of tartaric acid.
29. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
30. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
32. Bar temporarily.
34. A vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation.
38. A port town on the Atlantic coast of Portugal southeast of Lisbon.
42. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
43. Edible viscera of a fowl.
47. Something causes misery or death.
48. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
50. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
52. Set down according to a plan.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
56. Wild and domestic cattle.
57. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
59. Reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity.
60. Native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery.
62. North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
65. Siberian peasant monk who was religious advisor in the court of Nicholas II.
67. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
68. Annual or perennial herbs with large leaves that resemble the leaves of cabbages.
71. Having branches.
72. Start abruptly.
75. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
77. Covered or furnished with tiles.
78. A major school of Buddhism teaching social concern and universal salvation.
81. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
83. A native or inhabitant of Greece.
85. A small island.
87. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
91. Shaped or conditioned or disciplined by training.
94. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
95. God of war and sky.
96. An oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde.
98. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
99. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
100. Preferred above all others and treated with partiality.
101. The basic unit of money in Sierra Leone.
102. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
103. A young woman making her debut into society.
104. Being nine more than forty.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
5. Climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for Malacca canes.
6. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
7. Very large red gum tree.
8. Any bird of the genus Pitta.
9. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
10. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
11. A mountainous island in eastern Indonesia.
12. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
13. A painful sore with a hard pus-filled core.
14. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
15. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
22. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
24. A member of a West African people living chiefly in southwestern Nigeria.
26. Strongly marked.
28. Testacean rhizopods.
31. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
33. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
35. (Old Testament) A son of Jacob and a forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
36. An island in the south Pacific.
37. Being one more than forty.
39. A barbiturate used as a hypnotic.
40. Dark grayish extrusive rock.
41. Impaired by diminution.
44. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
45. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
46. A country north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea.
49. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
51. (India) Flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle.
54. The sixth month of the civil year.
58. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
61. Guinea fowl.
63. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Nepal or its people or language or culture.
64. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
66. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
69. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
70. A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair.
73. A diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound.
74. Of or relating to the palm of the hand or to the area at the base of the thumb.
76. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
79. Administer an oil or ointment to.
80. The capital and largest city of Japan.
82. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
84. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
86. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
88. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
89. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
90. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
92. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
93. A light touch or stroke.
97. In operation or operational.
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