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1. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
5. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
9. Ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail.
13. Droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground.
16. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
17. A small constellation near the South Pole between Tucana and Ara.
18. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
19. The sign language used in the United States.
20. (informal) Very tired.
21. A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth.
23. An instrumentality invented for a particular purpose.
25. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
27. Ark shells.
29. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
30. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
32. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
33. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting.
35. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
36. Used of a single unit or thing.
39. American novelist (1909-1955).
41. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
46. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
49. An ester of carbamic acid.
52. United States historian who wrote a nine volume history of the people of the United States (1852-1932).
54. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
55. North American water snakes.
58. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
59. The god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami.
61. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
63. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
64. Blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others.
65. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
67. A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
68. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
69. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
70. A suburb of Paris.
71. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
74. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
81. One-thousandth of an equivalent.
83. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
86. 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble.
88. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
92. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
93. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
94. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
96. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
97. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
98. Type genus of the Ranidae.
99. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
100. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood.
2. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
3. Largest crested screamer.
4. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
5. Select as an alternative.
6. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
7. At any time.
8. An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances.
9. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
10. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
11. (sports) With hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level.
12. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
13. Free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception.
14. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
15. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
22. Chick-pea plant.
24. Painted beauty and red admiral.
26. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
34. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
37. A man who courts a woman.
38. Arousing or provoking laughter.
40. The outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue.
42. Large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned.
43. A social unit living together.
44. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
45. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
47. In or belonging to the air or operating (for or by means of aircraft or elevated cables) in the air.
48. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc..
50. (of a musical instrument) Intermediate between alto and baritone or bass.
51. A strong emotion.
53. Before noon.
56. The ending of a series or sequence.
57. (law) A formal objection to an opponent's pleadings.
60. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
62. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
66. A cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred).
72. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
73. A tapering point.
75. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
76. Jordan's port.
77. City in Sudan.
78. An informal term for a father.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. Jordan's port.
82. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
84. God of love and erotic desire.
85. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
87. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
88. An associate degree in nursing.
89. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
90. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
91. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
95. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
96. A human limb.
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