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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. The Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life.
9. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
16. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
17. An oil port in southern Iraq.
18. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. Excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm.
22. Fallow deer.
23. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
24. By bad luck.
26. Informal terms for a mother.
27. The ending of a series or sequence.
29. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
31. (Hinduism) An ascetic holy man.
32. Archaic name for England or Great Britain.
36. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
37. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
41. Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity.
47. Conforming to truth.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
49. Humorously sarcastic or mocking.
51. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
52. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
54. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
55. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
56. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
59. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
61. A radioactive transuranic element.
62. Consider as ideal.
64. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
68. Sudden sharp painful emotion.
69. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
72. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
73. Blood-sucking African fly.
76. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
77. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
81. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
89. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
90. Challenge the honesty or credibility of.
92. A small skullcap.
93. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
94. Any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis.
95. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
97. A strong emotion.
98. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
99. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
100. A small cake leavened with yeast.
101. A doctor's degree in education.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
5. (Assyrian) God of storms and wind.
6. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
7. Term of address for a man.
8. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
9. A mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast.
10. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
11. A large fleet.
12. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
13. Offering fun and gaiety.
14. Speaking a Slavic language.
15. Avatar of Vishnu.
25. Goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis.
28. The southern part of the ancient Palestine succeeding the kingdom of Judah.
30. Prevent from being seen or discovered.
33. King of Sparta and hero of the battle of Thermopylae where is was killed by the Persians (died in 480 BC).
34. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
35. Obvious and dull.
38. The sixth month of the civil year.
39. Lives in warm moist areas e.g. around furnaces.
40. Medium tall celery pine of New Zealand.
42. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
43. A just detectable amount.
44. Capital and largest city of Italy.
45. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
46. A master's degree in library science.
50. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
53. The place where some action occurs.
57. Disparaging terms for the common people.
58. Make reference to.
60. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
63. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
65. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
66. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
70. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
71. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
74. (of rules) Stringently enforced.
75. A large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm.
78. An informal term for a father.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
82. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
83. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
84. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
85. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
86. A town in north central Oklahoma.
87. A title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority.
88. A small hard fruit.
91. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
96. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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