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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Sour or bitter in taste.
9. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
13. And nothing more.
16. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
17. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
18. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
19. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
20. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
22. A handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood.
24. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
26. A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles.
28. A person from whom you are descended.
30. Type genus of the Anatidae.
31. Any of several compounds of barium.
33. Short account of an incident (especially a biographical one).
35. A large truck designed to carry heavy loads.
39. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
40. A member of the North American Indian people of the Pit river valley in northern California.
44. The act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale).
48. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
49. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
50. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
51. A sign of something about to happen.
52. Dyed with henna.
56. A master's degree in education.
58. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
59. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
60. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
63. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
65. How long something has existed.
66. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
67. The highest level or degree attainable.
71. Late time of life.
73. Of or pertaining to Martin Luther or his teachings.
75. An affirmative.
76. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
79. (anatomy) A depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ.
80. Not out.
81. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
85. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
86. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high).
88. The ratio of reflected to incident light.
89. An antibiotic (trade name Nebcin) that is especially effective against gram-negative bacteria.
92. A deep bow.
94. Using speech rather than writing.
95. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
96. A large quantity of written matter.
98. God of fire.
99. Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used.
100. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
101. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
102. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
103. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
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1. An imperfection in a device or machine.
2. Greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
3. The capital of Western Samoa.
4. Before noon.
5. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
6. Make understand.
7. Put in a new, usually larger, pot, as of a plant that has grown.
8. An oil port in southern Iraq.
9. Weave together into a fabric or design.
10. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
11. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
12. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
13. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
14. A member of the Uniat Church.
15. Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity).
21. United States composer and rockabilly tenor popular in the 1950s (1936-1988).
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A title used to address any peeress except a duchess.
27. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
29. Again but in a new or different way.
32. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
34. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
36. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
37. The ancient kingdom of Philip II and Alexander the Great in the southeastern Balkans that is now divided among modern Macedonia and Greece and Bulgaria.
38. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
41. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
42. A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral.
43. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
45. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
46. The amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full.
47. Someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold.
53. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
54. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
55. A state in the eastern United States.
57. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
61. French novelist.
62. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
64. Lack of strength or vigor esp from illness.
68. Elegant and stylish.
69. A tan discoloration of a woman's face that is associated with pregnancy or with the use of oral contraceptives.
70. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
72. A city and port in northern Jutland.
73. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
74. A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes.
77. Of or relating to or involving an area.
78. Any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines.
82. Suggestive of the supernatural.
83. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
84. A draft horse harnessed alongside the shaft or pole of a vehicle.
87. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
90. A strong emotion.
91. Remaining after all deductions.
93. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
97. An associate degree in nursing.
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