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1. An accountant certified by the state.
4. Confederate general during the American Civil War who was defeated by Grant in the battle of Chattanooga (1817-1876).
9. A persistently annoying person.
13. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
18. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
19. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
20. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
22. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
25. God of love and erotic desire.
26. One whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior.
28. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
29. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
31. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
32. Loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging.
36. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
38. A book of the New Testament.
42. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
43. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
47. Baby bed with high sides.
49. In a foreign country.
50. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and a progestin compound.
51. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
53. Before noon.
55. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
56. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
58. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
62. A night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep.
63. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
65. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
66. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
70. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
73. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
74. A piece of land held under the feudal system.
76. Goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis.
78. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
81. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
84. Feed excessively.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
88. A town twenty miles east of Rome (Tibur is the ancient name).
89. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
90. A strong metal bar bearing a hook to attach something to be pulled.
91. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
92. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
94. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
96. A city in northwestern Syria.
97. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
98. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
99. English essayist (1775-1834).
100. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. The quantity a cask will hold.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
4. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
5. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap.
6. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
7. A city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva.
8. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
9. Small fatty fish usually canned.
10. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
11. So scary as to cause chills and shudders.
12. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
13. (informal) Exceptionally good.
14. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
15. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
24. Capital of Tuvalu.
27. Money paid out.
30. The square of a body of any size of type.
33. A tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing.
34. Of or relating to two people who are married to each other.
35. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
37. Gather, as of as crops.
39. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
40. Latticework used to support climbing plants.
41. Open and genuine.
44. A large fleet.
45. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
46. The eleventh month of the civil year.
48. Denuded of leaves.
52. A blank leaf in the front of back of a book.
54. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
57. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
59. United States chemist (1839-1903).
60. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
61. The government (political and military) of the Soviet Union.
64. Capable of being raised.
67. A vast Asian region of Russia.
68. 300 to 3000 kilohertz.
69. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
70. (informal) Exceptionally good.
71. Characteristic of or relating to winter.
72. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
75. The outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
77. A genus of Indriidae.
78. Before noon.
79. American Revolutionary patriot.
80. Very large red gum tree.
82. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
83. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
85. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
87. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
93. A cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss.
94. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
95. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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