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1. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
4. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.
9. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
13. The seventh and last day of the week.
16. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
17. Ludicrously odd.
18. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
19. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
20. Someone who speaks with a drawl.
22. Made from goats' milk.
23. The month following July and preceding September.
24. Brilliantly colored south Asian pheasant.
25. A unit of pressure.
26. Perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes.
28. Causing fear or dread or terror.
32. Predatory arachnid that usually has silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body.
35. Singing jazz.
39. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
40. A large fleet.
43. Cause to be attached.
45. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.
48. American author of inspirational adventure stories for boys.
49. A special loved one.
50. A disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches.
52. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
54. Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC).
55. A woman's large folded hooped hood.
56. Offering safety.
59. Of inferior or mixed breed.
60. Black tropical American cuckoo.
61. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
63. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
65. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
67. A loose cloak with a hood.
71. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
73. Of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado n 1.
75. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
76. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
77. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
81. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
85. 5 khoums equal 1 ouguiya.
88. A branch of the Tai languages.
89. Not shod.
91. Large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind.
93. A master's degree in business.
94. A light-weight hat worn in tropical countries for protection from the sun.
95. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
97. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
98. Tag the base runner to get him out.
99. United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United states films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954).
100. An artificial source of visible illumination.
101. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
102. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
103. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
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1. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
2. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
3. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
4. Any of several low-growing Australian eucalypts.
5. Used of a single unit or thing.
6. A violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family.
7. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
8. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
9. A strong emotion.
10. A state in the western United States.
11. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
12. A city in northwestern Syria.
13. The act of scanning.
14. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
15. A one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome.
21. A tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes.
27. An insect or other arthropod between molts.
29. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
30. Waterproof hip boots (sometimes extending to the chest) worn by anglers.
31. Slightly open.
33. Around the anus.
34. A feeling of intense anger.
36. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
37. A needle-like part or structure of a plant or animal or crystal.
38. A proposition deducible from basic postulates.
41. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
42. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
44. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
46. Provide with a new lining.
47. Any competition.
51. Largest crested screamer.
53. Wood of a sumac.
57. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
58. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
62. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
64. Either of two muscles of the abdomen and pelvis that flex the trunk and rotate the thigh.
66. Kauri pine.
67. Any of several low-growing Australian eucalypts.
68. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
69. A genus of Indriidae.
70. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
72. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
74. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
78. A genus of Lamnidae.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. Jordan's port.
82. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
83. Catch sight of.
84. The food served and eaten at one time.
85. A public promotion of some product or service.
86. A genus of Strigidae.
87. An instinctive motive.
90. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
96. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
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