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1. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
4. A Berber living in northern Morocco.
8. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
12. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
16. The last (12th) month of the year.
17. The content of cognition.
18. A friendly nation.
19. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. An implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish.
23. A sweet innocent baby.
24. A kind of percoid fish.
26. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
28. A battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV of France defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne.
29. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
34. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing norethindrone and mestranol.
40. Large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits.
41. English writer (born in Scotland) of children's stories (1859-1932).
45. Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage.
47. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
48. A fee for mooring.
50. (Irish) The sea personified.
51. (Assyrian) Chief god of the Assyrians.
53. (horseshoes) The throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake.
54. The formation of frost or ice on a surface.
56. (informal) Having or revealing stupidity.
58. A bachelor's degree in religion.
59. All the New World monkeys except marmosets and tamarins.
61. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
62. A flexible container with a single opening.
64. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
66. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
67. A notable achievement.
69. Of or relating to or near the coccyx.
70. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
71. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
73. Made from or covered with gold.
75. Endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys.
76. A source of danger.
80. Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units.
81. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
82. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.
86. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
90. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
91. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
93. A cap with a flat circular top and a visor.
95. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
96. Any small compartment.
97. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
98. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
99. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
100. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
101. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
102. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
103. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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1. The sixth month of the civil year.
2. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. The cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm.
5. Extreme mental retardation.
6. A city in north central Morocco.
7. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
8. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
9. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
10. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
11. An ancient city is southern Greece.
12. Adroitness in using the hands.
13. The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose.
14. An Asian river between China and Russia.
15. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
22. God of the earth.
25. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.
27. Transactions having the objective of supplying commodities.
30. Second brightest star in Perseus.
33. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
35. A dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten).
36. A hole (as in the wall of a building) made by rats.
37. Having wisdom that comes with age and experience.
38. A speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels).
39. Any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the army or air force or marines ranking above a corporal.
42. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
43. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs.
44. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
46. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
49. A trivial lie.
52. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
55. Painter of the Florentine school.
57. Noisy talk.
60. A town in north central Oklahoma.
63. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
65. A landlocked republic in central Europe.
68. Become smaller or lose substance.
69. The cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm.
72. Late time of life.
74. In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
77. A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers).
78. A domain in which something is dominant.
79. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
83. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
84. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
85. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
87. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
88. An informal term for a father.
89. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
92. A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times.
94. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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