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1. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
13. A castrated tomcat.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
18. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
19. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
20. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
21. Mated sexually.
22. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
23. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
24. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
26. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
27. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. (formerly) A horse-drawn wagon that delivered ice door to door.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
38. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
39. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
42. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
44. North American yellow-breasted songbirds.
48. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
49. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
52. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
53. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
55. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
56. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
58. English statesman and son of Pitt the Elder (1759-1806).
60. A state in southeastern United States.
62. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
64. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
65. A genus of Mustelidae.
67. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
68. Unknown god.
69. At full speed.
71. Covered patchily.
75. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
77. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
78. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
80. 1 species.
84. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
87. A telegram sent abroad.
89. Having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading.
92. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
94. The way in which someone or something is composed.
96. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
97. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
98. A French abbot.
100. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
101. Very dark black.
102. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
103. A sudden short attack.
104. Located in or toward the back or rear.
105. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
3. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
4. God of love and erotic desire.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
7. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
8. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
9. Black tropical American cuckoo.
10. An informal term for a father.
11. Relating to or characteristic of an apogee.
12. A landlocked republic in southern central Africa.
13. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
14. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
15. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
25. Very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches.
28. A dialect of English spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland.
30. A light touch or stroke.
32. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
34. A dicotyledonous genus of the family Ericaceae.
36. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
37. The 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
40. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
41. A state in northwestern North America.
43. The eighth month of the Hindu calendar.
45. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
46. Central nervous system stimulant (trade name Ritalin) used in the treatment of narcolepsy in adults and attention deficit disorder in children.
47. A fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar).
50. A mistake resulting from inattention.
51. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
54. Someone who engages in surfboarding.
57. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
59. Fiddler crabs.
61. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
63. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
66. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
70. Make moist.
71. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
72. An East Indian sailor.
73. A licensed medical practitioner.
74. Someone who expresses in language.
75. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
76. Extraordinarily abundant.
79. Given or having a specified name.
81. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
82. Informal terms for a mother.
83. Jordan's port.
84. Gone by.
85. Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).
86. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
88. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
90. A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme.
91. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
93. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
95. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
99. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
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