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1. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
5. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
9. A reason for wanting something done.
13. A doctor's degree in theology.
16. The financial means whereby one lives.
17. A group of countries in special alliance.
18. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
19. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
20. The unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy.
22. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
24. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
25. South American cavy.
27. A resident of Ohio.
29. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
30. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
31. A city in northeastern New Jersey.
35. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
37. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
41. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
42. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Remicade) consisting of an antibody directed against TNF.
45. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
47. Capable of wounding.
49. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
50. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
51. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
52. Cause to be bitter or resentful.
55. The habitation of wild animals.
56. A Hindu prince or king in India.
58. Stay the same.
59. Informal terms for a mother.
61. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
62. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
63. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
66. A motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities.
67. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. A non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH(2n+2).
70. Greek mythology.
73. The sacred city of Lamaism.
74. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
77. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
79. By chance.
82. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
84. Antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatening arrhythmias but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients.
87. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
88. Small genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs.
90. The capital of Croatia.
92. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
93. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
94. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
96. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
97. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
98. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
99. A drama set to music.
100. Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water.
101. An audiotape recording of sound.
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1. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
2. Gather, as of as crops.
3. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
4. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
5. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
6. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
7. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
8. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
9. A descendent or heir.
10. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
11. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
12. The square of a body of any size of type.
13. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
14. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
15. An informal term for a father.
21. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
23. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
26. A mining town in southern Wales.
28. National capital of Solomon Islands.
32. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. Brightest star in Centaurus.
36. Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.
38. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
39. French otologist who first described a form of vertigo now known as Meniere's disease and identified the semicircular canals as the site of the lesion (1799-1862).
40. Epithet of Siva.
43. Shaped like a cube.
44. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
46. Type genus of the Anatidae.
48. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
53. Consisting of or made of cedar.
54. Board a plane.
57. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
60. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
64. 1 species.
65. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
69. A festival featuring African-American culture.
71. The part of a missile or torpedo that carries the explosive charge.
72. A short sleep (usually not in bed).
73. 16 ounces.
75. A compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms.
76. Dwell (archaic).
78. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
80. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
81. Put to use.
83. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
85. Unknown god.
86. (British) Diesel oil used in cars and lorries with diesel engines (from d(iesel) e(ngine) r(oad) v(ehicle)).
89. (informal) Of the highest quality.
90. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
91. Minor or subordinate.
95. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
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