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1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. Extending or lying across.
9. South African term for `boss'.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. A port in southwestern Scotland.
17. Being in competition.
18. God of fire.
19. Used in combination to denote the middle.
20. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
22. Spread or daub over.
24. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
26. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
28. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
30. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
31. Any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures.
33. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
35. Only the bowfins.
42. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
45. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
46. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
47. A worthless message.
49. Of or relating to the spleen.
50. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
52. An extreme state of adversity.
54. Tall New Zealand timber tree.
55. The craniometric point that is the most prominent point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance).
59. Towards the side away from the wind.
60. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
61. A nitrogen-containing base found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine.
62. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
63. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
64. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
65. A cephalosporin antibiotic (trade name Ultracef).
67. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
68. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
70. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
72. Indian tree having fragrant nocturnal white flowers and yielding a reddish wood used for planking.
79. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
82. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
84. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
85. The cry made by sheep.
86. Very spicy sauce made from tabasco peppers.
90. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
91. Cricket frogs.
92. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
94. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
95. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
96. Completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress.
97. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
98. (British) Your grandmother.
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1. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
2. A common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete.
3. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
4. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
5. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
6. Hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers.
7. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
8. A wound made by cutting.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
13. Type genus of the Amiidae.
14. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
21. Of or relating to a pointed conical tooth.
23. Fiddler crabs.
25. Someone who engages in debate.
27. An informal term for a father.
29. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
32. A genus of Ploceidae.
34. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
36. Sauce for pasta.
37. Infuse with spirit.
38. Of or related to aplite.
39. Any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowers.
40. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
41. A colorless flammable liquid obtained from petroleum or coal tar.
43. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
44. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
48. Unable to move or resist motion.
51. Half the width of an em.
53. Merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film).
56. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
57. (electronics) A sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients).
58. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
63. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries.
66. A trivial lie.
69. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
71. Reason by deduction.
73. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
74. Resembling gass.
75. Remote in manner.
76. Large heavily built goat antelope of eastern Himalayan area.
77. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
78. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
80. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
81. A telephone connection.
83. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
87. (informal) Of the highest quality.
88. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
89. A relativistic quantum theory of the electromagnetic interactions of photons and electrons and muons.
90. A public promotion of some product or service.
93. An informal term for a father.
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