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1. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
4. A cordial disposition.
9. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
13. A master's degree in business.
16. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
17. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
18. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
19. A small piece of cloth.
20. Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
21. Kauri pine.
23. A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude.
25. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
27. (physics) The point of maximum displacement in a periodic system.
29. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
30. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
32. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
34. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
36. Congenital absence of an arm or leg.
40. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
42. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
45. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
46. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. Speak in a nasal voice.
53. Characteristic of false pride.
54. Not established by conditioning or learning.
55. A small tasty bit of food.
56. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
58. Anneal or toughen by a process of gradually heating and cooling.
60. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
61. Light wispy precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground (especially when the lower air is low in humidity).
63. The cry made by sheep.
64. Southeastern Asian perennial with aromatic roots.
66. Angered at something unjust or wrong.
68. The basic unit of money in Sierra Leone.
69. The time of life between the ages of 12 and 20.
70. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
72. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
74. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
75. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
77. Dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France.
81. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
83. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
85. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
88. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
92. (Babylonian) The sky god.
94. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
96. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
97. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
98. (used informally) Very small.
99. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
100. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
3. A situation comedy.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. Large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit.
6. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
7. Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman.
8. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
9. The basic unit of money in Uruguay.
10. A public promotion of some product or service.
11. Highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic.
12. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
13. The template for protein synthesis.
14. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
15. Advanced in years.
22. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
24. Regional and archaic.
26. A port city in southwestern Iran.
28. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
35. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
37. Distance measured in miles.
38. Engaged in war.
39. Type genus of the Plataleidae.
41. Align anew or better.
43. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
44. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
47. Type genus of the Albuginaceae.
49. United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914).
51. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
52. Occurring at or forming an end or termination.
57. A member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas.
59. An East Indian sailor.
62. A grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives.
65. Be in contradiction with.
67. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
71. In a slow and lazy manner.
73. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
76. Excessively fat.
78. New Zealand conifer.
79. Wife of Balder.
80. (Mexican) Ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans.
82. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
84. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
86. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
87. Avatar of Vishnu.
89. The month following July and preceding September.
90. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
91. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
93. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
94. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
95. A blow that renders the opponent unconscious.
96. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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