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1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. The capital of Morocco.
9. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
13. A federally chartered savings bank.
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. Squash bugs.
18. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
19. Fiddler crabs.
20. Considerate and solicitous care.
21. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
22. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
23. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
24. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
26. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
28. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
29. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
30. Having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals.
32. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
41. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
46. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
47. A formal expression of praise.
49. The act of ceding.
51. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
52. A man who plows.
53. A radioactive transuranic element.
54. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
55. Occurring widely (as to many people).
56. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
57. The cry made by sheep.
59. How long something has existed.
62. Towards the side away from the wind.
63. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
65. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
68. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
70. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
72. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
73. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
74. Out of fashion.
75. A basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression).
78. A spear with three or more prongs.
80. Sightlessness (especially because of a structural defect in or the absence of an eye).
83. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
86. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
92. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
95. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
97. An associate degree in applied science.
98. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
99. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
101. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
102. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
103. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
104. (India) Absolutely first class and genuine.
105. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
106. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
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1. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
2. Ragout of game in a rich sauce.
3. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
4. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
5. Black tropical American cuckoo.
6. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
7. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
8. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
9. A city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea.
10. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
11. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
12. Take away the weapons from.
13. Shrubby Japanese tree having pale pink blossoms.
14. Singing jazz.
15. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. A field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay.
27. An honorary arts degree.
29. Discrimination in favor of the able-bodied.
31. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
33. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers.
35. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
36. God of fire.
38. Someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations.
39. A female massager.
40. British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898).
42. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
43. Having an oblique or slanted direction.
44. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
45. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
48. God of the earth.
50. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
58. Type genus of the Amiidae.
60. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
61. A native American tent.
64. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
66. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
67. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
69. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
71. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
76. A state in the eastern United States.
77. A member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior.
79. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
81. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
82. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
84. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
85. Type genus of the Phocidae.
86. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
87. A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases.
88. A French abbot.
89. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
90. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
91. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
93. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
94. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
96. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
100. A state in northwestern North America.
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