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1. The tenth month of the Hindu calendar.
4. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
8. A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).
12. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
16. Black tropical American cuckoo.
17. An inhabitant of Lappland.
18. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
19. The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries.
20. Send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code.
22. (ecology) The process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat.
24. A state in the western United States.
25. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
26. Type genus of the family Ascaridae.
29. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
32. (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) Optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. Type genus of the Anatidae.
45. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
46. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
47. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
48. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
49. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
50. Alcoholic drink from fermented cider (`cider' and `cyder' are European (especially British) usage for the fermented beverage).
52. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
53. Marked by great carelessness.
57. Imperial moths.
60. The fifth day of the week.
61. Clover ferns.
62. A large round wicker basket (used on farms).
63. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
65. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
66. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
67. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
69. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
70. Of or relating to or suitable for Lent.
73. Any compound of oxygen with another element or a radical.
77. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
78. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
79. A telegram sent abroad.
81. Command against.
86. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
88. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
91. Not divisible by two.
92. An intellectual (who is bald?).
94. Reverse the winding or twisting of.
96. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
97. Any of the openings to the nasal cavities that allow air to flow through the cavities to the pharynx.
98. A city in northern India.
100. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
101. One-thousandth of an equivalent.
102. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
103. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
104. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
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1. An article deposited as security.
2. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
3. Used of the language of the deaf.
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
6. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
7. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. A person with unusual powers of foresight.
9. Not final or absolute.
10. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
11. The foot of a human being.
12. A plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers.
13. Having relatively few calories.
14. Any of various small biting flies.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
23. Troops trained to fight on horseback.
27. The skin that covers the top of the head.
28. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. At or in or to any place.
34. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
36. Nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter.
37. Marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations.
38. United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880).
39. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
40. (Welsh) The farmer god.
41. A walled city in southeastern China on the Gan Jiang.
43. Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure.
44. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
51. A Mid-Atlantic state.
54. A genus of Bothidae.
55. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
56. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
58. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
59. Small or little relative to something else.
64. An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live.
68. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
71. A computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter.
72. Large Indian antelope.
74. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
75. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
76. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
80. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
82. Not in action or at work.
83. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
84. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
85. Urged social reform in 19th century England.
87. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
89. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
90. English essayist (1775-1834).
93. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
95. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
99. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
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