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1. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
4. Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948).
9. United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis (born 1914).
13. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland.
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. Squash bugs.
18. A ball of yarn or cord or thread.
19. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
20. An ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind.
22. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
23. The fatty flesh of eel.
24. The sixth month of the civil year.
25. Chief port of Yemen.
27. Cut off from a whole.
29. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
31. A person forced to flee from home or country.
32. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
34. Official routes of communication.
36. Move out of an unsafe location into safety.
41. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight.
46. Type genus of the family Paridae.
47. An inhabitant of Lappland.
50. A state in New England.
51. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
53. Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands.
54. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
57. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
58. The chance to speak.
59. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
61. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
63. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
64. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
66. Outstanding Italian operatic tenor (1873-1921).
67. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
69. God of death.
70. By bad luck.
71. The cry made by sheep.
73. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
74. A long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods).
77. Immediately past.
79. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
82. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
83. An associate degree in nursing.
85. A city in southwestern Poland on the Oder.
89. The highest level or degree attainable.
92. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
94. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
97. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
99. A small cake leavened with yeast.
101. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
102. A light touch or stroke.
103. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
104. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
105. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
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1. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
2. A sudden short attack.
3. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
4. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
5. Put into a rage.
6. A prolific German composer noted for his oratorios (1685-1759).
7. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
8. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
9. A thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery.
10. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
11. Australian moundbird.
12. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
13. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
14. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
15. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
21. The father of your father or mother.
26. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
28. Ending in a sharp point.
30. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
33. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
35. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
37. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
38. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
39. Of a tire.
40. Extremely hungry.
44. Genus of large brown long-billed wading birds found in warm swampy regions of the Western Hemisphere.
45. United States chemist (1839-1903).
48. A gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws.
49. Deciduous shrub of North America.
52. A language spoken by a Malaysian people on Formosa.
55. The muscular back part of the shank.
56. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
60. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
62. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
65. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
68. Large Indian antelope.
72. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
75. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
76. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
78. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
80. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
81. Any taillike structure.
84. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
85. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
86. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
87. Long and thin and often limp.
88. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
89. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
90. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
91. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
93. The bill in a restaurant.
95. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
96. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
98. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
100. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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