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1. An honorary degree in science.
4. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
13. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
16. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
17. Freed from bondage.
18. The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians.
19. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. Jordan's port.
22. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
23. A loud harsh or strident noise.
24. Obvious and dull.
26. A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy).
27. Of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive n 1.
29. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
30. Of or relating to the aorta.
31. (informal) Exceptionally good.
36. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
39. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
41. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
45. Before noon.
46. Make amends for.
47. Light automatic rifle.
50. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
52. Bound or secured closely.
55. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
57. Of a pale purple color.
58. A unit of pressure.
59. A drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure.
61. A position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it.
64. The capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa.
67. An adult castrated bull of the genus Bos.
68. A friendly nation.
69. An imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity.
73. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
75. Build up to a level by depositing sediment.
79. Spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun.
83. Lower in esteem.
85. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
86. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
87. Harmed or injured or spoiled.
90. Large Indian antelope.
92. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
93. Deciduous shrub of North America.
94. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
96. Goddess of fate.
97. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
98. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
99. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
100. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
3. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
4. A territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine.
5. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
6. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. A genus of Platalea.
10. Of or concerning this.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. A member of a subgroup of people who inhabit Lesotho.
13. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
14. (British) A person without employment who makes money by various dubious schemes.
15. Something causes misery or death.
25. A number to which another number (the addend) is added.
28. At risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant.
32. Consistent with or based on or using reason.
33. Like an amoeba (especially in having a variable irregular shape).
34. German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910).
35. Gin (or vodka) with dry vermouth.
37. A young unmarried woman.
38. Pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions.
40. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
42. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
43. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
44. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
48. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
49. A bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus (4th century).
51. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
53. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
54. 1/10 gram.
56. A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
60. A large number of things or people considered together.
62. A pressing or urgent situation.
63. Of or relating to or near the sacrum.
65. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
66. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
70. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
71. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
72. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
74. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
76. Present reasons and arguments.
77. A daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations.
78. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
80. United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961).
81. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
82. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
84. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
88. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
89. (informal) Of the highest quality.
91. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
95. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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