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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. Of a pale purple color.
9. A humorous anecdote or remark.
13. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
16. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
17. An illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor.
18. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
20. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
21. Dragonflies and damselflies.
23. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
25. A branch of the Tai languages.
27. Place in a grave or tomb.
29. The officer below the master on a commercial ship.
30. The sacred city of Lamaism.
32. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
33. A slipper that is soft and wool (for babies).
35. One of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs.
38. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
42. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
43. A tranquilizer (trade name Valium) used to relieve anxiety and relax muscles.
45. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
46. An exhibition of cowboy skills.
48. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
50. A state in the western United States.
51. Showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness.
53. The withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid.
55. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
56. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
58. 16 ounces.
59. A person responsible for hiring workers.
62. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
64. American civil rights worker in Mississippi.
65. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
67. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
69. Type genus of the Canidae.
70. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
73. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
74. At any time.
81. Not very intelligent or interested in culture.
86. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
88. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
89. A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks in 479 BC.
92. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
93. Proceed without interruption.
94. Imprudently incurring risk.
96. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
97. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
98. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
99. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
100. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
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1. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
2. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
3. Natural nitrogen-containing bases found in plants.
4. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high).
5. Treated with iodine.
6. A toilet in England.
7. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
8. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (24,780 feet high).
9. 10 jiao equal 1 yuan.
10. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
11. A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved.
12. A doctor's degree in education.
13. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
14. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
15. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
22. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
24. Proceed or issue forth, as from a source.
26. That which has mass and occupies space.
28. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
31. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
34. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
36. King of Wessex.
37. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
39. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
40. Sister and consort of Izanami.
41. Rambling talkativeness (especially in the aged).
44. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
47. Treated with oil.
49. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
54. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
57. An island northwest of Wales.
60. A battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV of France defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne.
61. An appreciable consequence (especially a lessening).
63. A flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries.
66. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
68. Distance measured in the aggregate number of yards.
69. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
71. Having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or the keel of a ship.
72. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
75. A member of a Finnish people of Russia.
76. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
77. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
78. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
79. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
80. Person who does no work.
82. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
83. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
84. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
85. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
87. Type genus of the Amiidae.
90. An enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal.
91. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
95. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
96. The square of a body of any size of type.
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