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1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
9. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
13. Bark in a high-pitched tone.
16. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
17. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
18. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
19. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
20. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
21. Indigo bush.
22. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
23. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
24. (informal) Exceptionally good.
26. Cause to go crazy.
27. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
29. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
31. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
33. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
37. Endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys.
40. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
43. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
45. Of or relating to or located near a hilum.
46. Marked by the use of various kinds of red makeup.
47. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
48. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
49. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
51. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) Electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line.
53. The month following September and preceding November.
54. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
56. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
59. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
60. Having a quality that thrusts itself into attention.
62. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
65. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
66. In or of the month preceding the present one.
67. Antibiotic related to cephalosporin but no longer in common use.
68. That is to say.
71. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
73. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
74. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
79. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
80. Someone who leaves one country to settle in another.
83. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
87. (British) Your grandmother.
88. (Judaism) Not conforming to dietary laws.
92. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
93. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
94. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
96. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
97. 100 fen equal 1 yuan.
98. A woman gossip.
99. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
100. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
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1. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
2. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
3. A violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family.
4. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
5. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
6. An Anatolian language.
7. Advanced in years.
8. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
9. Of or relating to Linnaeus or to the system of of taxonomic classification that he proposed.
10. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
11. Scratch and scrimp.
12. United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927).
13. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
14. An Eskimo hut.
15. (football) Of advancing the ball by throwing it.
25. An outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles.
28. A person with albinism.
30. Dramatist of ancient Rome (born in Greece) whose comedies were based on works by Menander (190?-159 BC).
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
35. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
36. Capital and largest city of Indonesia.
38. Old World terrestrial lizard.
39. A brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length can be varied by a U-shaped slide.
41. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
42. A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.
44. Of or belonging to an aecium.
50. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
52. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
55. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
57. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
58. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
61. The formation of frost or ice on a surface.
63. Jordan's port.
64. From 40 million to 58 million years ago.
69. Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent.
70. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
72. Having gaps or spaces.
73. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
75. Affect with wonder.
76. A fine strong sheer silky fabric made of silk or rayon or nylon.
77. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
78. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
81. The dressed hairy coat of a mammal.
82. A state in midwestern United States.
84. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
85. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
86. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
89. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
90. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
91. An associate degree in applied science.
95. An informal term for a father.
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