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1. A secret agent hired by a state to obtain (military) information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors.
4. Singing jazz.
8. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
12. (of molten metal or glass) Formed by pouring or pressing into a mold n 1.
16. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
17. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
18. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
19. A Loloish language.
20. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
22. A small house with a single story.
24. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
25. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
26. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed.
28. A card game similar to ecarte.
30. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
32. A state in midwestern United States.
36. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
40. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
45. A sculpture representing a human or animal.
46. Something that is a source of danger.
48. Having an oblique or slanted direction.
50. A form of address for a man.
51. (anatomy) A layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure.
52. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
55. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
56. Pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic.
60. Have in common.
62. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
64. A city in northwestern Syria.
65. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
66. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
68. Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656).
69. A member of a Turkic people of NE Siberia (mainly in the Lena river basin).
70. Half the width of an em.
71. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
72. Indicating the most important performer or role.
77. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
83. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
87. The first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac.
89. An island in the southern Mariana Islands that is the administrative center of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
91. A sharp projection on an edge or surface.
92. A city in north central Morocco.
93. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
95. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
96. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
97. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
98. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying the primeval sea.
99. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
100. Being one more than ninety.
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1. Any distinct time period in a sequence of events.
2. A republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States.
3. Of or relating to yoga.
4. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
5. A telegram sent abroad.
6. A fit of shivering.
7. Medium tall celery pine of New Zealand.
8. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
9. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
10. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
11. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
12. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
13. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
14. A branch of the Tai languages.
15. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
21. The capital and largest city of Greece.
23. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion.
33. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
34. Paper that has been made translucent and waterproof by soaking in oil.
35. An annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic.
37. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
38. A genus of Stichaeidae.
39. United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933).
41. Deliberately impassive in manner.
42. Unwind from or as if from a reel.
43. Genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers.
44. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
47. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
49. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
53. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
54. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
57. On the positive side or higher end of a scale.
58. Defeated in a competition.
59. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
61. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
63. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
67. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
73. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
74. The capital of Turkey.
75. A city in northwestern Turkey.
76. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
78. In bed.
79. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
80. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
81. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
82. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
84. A mythical Greek hero.
85. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
86. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
88. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
90. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
91. A master's degree in business.
94. A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.
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