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1. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
4. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
9. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
13. An accountant certified by the state.
16. A local computer network for communication between computers.
17. Found along western Atlantic coast.
18. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
19. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
20. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
21. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
22. Relieve from military service.
24. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
27. A Russian river.
29. Failure of some tissue or organ to develop.
31. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
34. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
40. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
43. Any of a group of proteases that mediate apoptosis.
47. Japanese stringed instrument that resembles a zither.
50. Extract of the heartwood of Acacia catechu used for dying and tanning and preserving fishnets and sails.
53. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
54. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
55. A tributary of the Rhine.
56. An almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum.
59. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
60. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
62. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
64. A long slender cigar.
66. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
67. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
68. A state in the western United States.
69. Provide with a new seat, as of a chair.
70. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
71. A state in midwestern United States.
72. Watery fluid of the blood that resembles plasma but contains fibrinogen.
76. A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion.
78. A Hindu prince or king in India.
83. A small cake leavened with yeast.
86. A mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture).
89. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
92. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
94. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
96. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
97. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
98. Especially of a ship's lines etc.
99. Especially one side of a leaf.
100. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
101. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
102. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
103. Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910).
104. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
3. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
4. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
5. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
6. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
7. A master's degree in business.
8. European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison.
9. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
10. Slanderous defamation.
11. Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce).
12. A genus of Scolopacidae.
13. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
14. A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair.
15. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
23. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
26. Horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window.
28. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
30. A port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
36. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
38. The application of very thin coat of color over the surface of a picture.
39. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
42. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
44. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
45. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
46. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
48. Small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail.
49. Informal terms.
51. Of or relating to the palm of the hand or to the area at the base of the thumb.
52. German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia (1868-1934).
57. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
58. Used of a single unit or thing.
61. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
63. Made afraid.
65. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
73. Informal terms for a mother.
74. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
75. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
77. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
79. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
80. A negatively charged atom.
81. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
82. United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock'n'roll music (1925-1981).
84. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
85. Moderate or restrain.
87. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
88. Cut off the testicles.
90. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
91. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
93. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
95. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
96. A state in midwestern United States.
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