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1. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
12. Type genus of the Anatidae.
16. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
17. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
18. The sixth month of the civil year.
19. A Hindu prince or king in India.
20. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
22. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
24. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
25. Not invited or requested.
28. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
32. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
34. Of a leaf shape.
40. A quantity of no importance.
41. (of persons) Seized and detained unlawfully, often for ransom.
44. Type genus of the family Ulvaceae.
46. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
47. Worthy of the greatest honor or distinction.
49. Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties.
50. Being one more than two.
52. In the Roman calendar.
53. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
55. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
56. Having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number.
58. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
59. Cuban dancer and choreographer (born in 1921).
60. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
61. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
62. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
64. Tasting sour like a lemon.
65. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
67. An informal term for a father.
69. A city and port in northern Jutland.
72. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
73. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
74. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
76. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
79. Remove from its packing.
83. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
86. (botany) Of some seeds.
90. A rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy.
91. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
93. Issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.).
94. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
95. Of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton.
97. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
98. A primeval personification of air and breath.
99. Fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground.
100. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. A Loloish language.
2. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
3. Covered patchily.
4. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
5. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
6. A public promotion of some product or service.
7. A United States youth subculture of the 1950s.
8. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
9. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
10. A salt or ester of maleic acid.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
13. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
14. Slightly open.
15. A framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame.
21. Having two axes.
23. A member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire.
26. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
27. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
29. Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person.
31. Radiating or as if radiating light.
33. The mints.
35. A mechanism that puts something into automatic action.
36. Indicating the most important performer or role.
37. Normal relaxed breathing.
38. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
39. A usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.).
42. The craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium.
43. Remove the scales from.
45. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
48. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
51. Being nine more than ninety.
54. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
57. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
63. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
66. Made clean.
68. Any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root.
70. Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium.
71. An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
75. A radioactive transuranic element that is similar to uranium.
77. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
78. A woman gossip.
80. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
81. Used facetiously.
82. Make uniform.
84. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
85. Chief port of Yemen.
87. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
88. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
89. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
92. Of southern Europe.
96. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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