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1. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
5. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
9. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
16. Largest known toad species.
17. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
18. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
19. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
20. Ancient city southeast of Naples that was buried by a volcanic eruption from Vesuvius.
22. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
24. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
25. Discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.
26. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
28. Tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas.
30. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
34. Affected with madness or insanity.
36. A flexible container with a single opening.
38. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
39. The emotion of hate.
40. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
43. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
47. (informal) Of the highest quality.
49. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
51. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
52. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
56. Having the same or similar characteristics.
57. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
58. Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being.
62. British writer (born in Hungary) who wrote a novel exposing the Stalinist purges during the 1930s (1905-1983).
63. Fallow deer.
65. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
66. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
68. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
69. Antibacterial agent (trade names Mandelamine and Urex) that is contained in many products that are used to treat urinary infections.
70. A public promotion of some product or service.
73. A rugged box (usually made of wood).
76. An implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end.
80. Not only so, but.
84. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
85. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
87. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
91. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
92. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
93. World's longest river (4187 miles).
94. A pass between mountain peaks.
95. The habitation of wild animals.
96. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
97. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
98. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
99. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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1. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
2. Highly excited.
3. Chew the cuds.
4. Of boats.
5. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
6. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
7. Informal terms for a mother.
8. By bad luck.
9. A genus of Platalea.
10. Shout loudly and without restraint.
11. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
12. A town in northern Egypt.
13. Award-winning United States film actor (1928-1999).
14. A just detectable amount.
15. A blind god.
21. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
23. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. (commerce) The period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange).
33. An oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments.
35. The fur of the North American racoon.
37. A French abbot.
41. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
42. United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918).
44. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
45. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
46. A conspicuous constellation in the northern hemisphere.
48. (abbreviated `ha') A unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters).
50. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
53. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
54. An industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border.
55. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
59. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
60. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
61. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
64. Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience.
67. Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968).
71. Rapid and indistinct speech.
72. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
74. Steal goods.
75. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
77. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
78. Give out.
79. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
81. God of love and erotic desire.
82. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
83. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
86. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
87. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
88. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
89. A transuranic element.
90. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
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