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1. The federal department that administers federal program dealing with better housing and urban renewal.
4. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
9. A musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it.
13. A sharp change in direction.
16. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
17. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
18. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
19. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
20. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
21. (pathology) A firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin.
23. A crisp bread of fine white flour.
25. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
27. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
28. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
29. Relating to the Urdu language.
30. A unit of power equal to 746 watts.
33. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
37. A fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance).
38. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
41. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
45. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
47. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
48. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
49. 16 ounces.
50. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
51. Noisy talk.
52. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
55. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
57. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
58. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
60. Type genus of the Anatidae.
63. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
64. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
68. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
71. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
73. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
74. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
75. Submerged freshwater perennials.
78. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
82. Lower in esteem.
86. Of or relating to a creed.
88. A genus of Scolopacidae.
90. Wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and North Africa having large recurved horns.
91. A yearning for something or to do something.
92. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
94. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
95. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
96. Having leadership guidance.
97. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
98. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
99. Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.
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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
2. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
3. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
4. A sponge cake baked in a ring mold.
5. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
6. Found along western Atlantic coast.
7. A city in northern India.
8. Genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers.
9. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
10. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
12. King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975).
13. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
14. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
15. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
22. An oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments.
24. East Asian perennial herbs.
26. A colorless toxic flammable liquid used in the synthesis of nylon.
31. American Revolutionary leader (born in Prussia) who trained the troops under George Washington (1730-1794).
32. Port city in northwest Portugal.
34. (Japan) Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword.
35. A large strong and aggressive woman.
36. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
39. Any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers.
40. Trees of chiefly South America.
42. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
43. The disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest.
44. Goddess of fortune.
46. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
53. Unknown god.
54. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
56. A bachelor's degree in science.
59. (Greek mythology) Any of the 50 sea nymphs who were daughters of the sea god Nereus.
61. Advanced in years.
62. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
65. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
66. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
67. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
68. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
69. Be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc..
70. Reports of the work of a society or learned body etc.
71. A Mid-Atlantic state.
72. Any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae.
73. A bachelor's degree in science.
76. An island of central Hawaii.
77. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
79. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
80. A thrusting blow with a knife.
81. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
83. Make amends for.
84. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
85. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
87. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
89. Used of a single unit or thing.
90. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
93. Informal terms for a mother.
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