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1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
8. Willing to face danger.
12. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
16. An accountant certified by the state.
17. An informal term for a father.
18. The twelfth month of the civil year.
19. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
22. Tear or be torn violently.
23. Great in vertical dimension.
24. The Creator.
26. Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude.
29. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
30. A bachelor's degree in science.
32. An associate degree in nursing.
33. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
36. Of or relating to the heart.
40. Wood of a sumac.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. A heavy coat.
47. German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910).
48. Material used to daub walls.
49. One of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis.
50. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
52. A card game for 2 players.
53. A low transparent cover put over young plants to protect them from cold.
55. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
57. An engineering university in Cambridge.
58. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
59. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
64. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
65. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
67. Fabric made with yarn made from the silky hair of the Angora goat.
68. A serious (sometimes fatal) infection transmitted by the bite of an infected rat flea (especially bubonic plague).
70. Half the width of an em.
71. A doctor's degree in optometry.
73. Collapse by releasing contained air or gas.
75. A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
76. The Fate who determines the length of the thread of life.
79. An athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination.
81. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
85. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
86. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
88. Avoid and stay away from deliberately.
90. Austrian painter influenced by art nouveau (1862-1918).
95. English monk and scholar (672-735).
97. Small creeping evergreen shrubs.
98. Noisy talk.
100. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
101. (informal) "in the dumps".
103. Fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops.
105. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
106. The fatty flesh of eel.
107. Any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers.
108. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
109. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. God of death.
4. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
5. Water buffalo of the Philippines.
6. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. Slender east African antelope with slim neck and backward-curving horns.
9. A city in northwestern Syria.
10. Small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark.
11. Late time of life.
12. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
13. The cry made by sheep.
14. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
15. A share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given.
25. Having or characterized by excessive moisture.
27. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
28. A radioactive transuranic element.
31. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
34. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
35. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
37. Pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts.
38. Organized opposition to authority.
39. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
41. Small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters.
43. The outer body wall of an insect.
44. The verbal act of urging on.
46. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
51. Fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus.
54. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
56. The agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered.
60. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
61. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
62. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
63. (in India and Burma) Robbery by a gang of armed dacoits.
66. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
69. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
72. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
74. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
77. Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it.
78. An associate degree in applied science.
80. Rate of revolution of a motor.
82. Small freshwater fish of South America and West Indies.
83. Native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery.
84. Jordan's port.
87. Informal terms for money.
89. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
91. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves.
92. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
93. (prefix) Outside or outer.
94. A Loloish language.
96. A rapid bustling commotion.
99. Of southern Europe.
102. (legal terminology) The Latin word for wife.
104. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
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