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1. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
16. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
17. The capital of Western Samoa.
18. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
19. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
20. A tan discoloration of a woman's face that is associated with pregnancy or with the use of oral contraceptives.
22. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Baltic States or their peoples or languages.
24. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
25. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
28. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
30. A ceremonial procession including people marching.
32. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
34. (informal) Exceptionally good.
35. Serving cart for serving tea or light refreshments.
39. An expression of greeting.
41. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
43. Machine tool for shaping metal or wood.
44. Make weak.
48. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
50. The activity of persuading someone to buy.
51. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
53. A trite or obvious remark.
55. Type genus of the Sciuridae.
57. Affect with wonder.
59. A pass between mountain peaks.
60. A person who lacks good judgment.
61. Small and light boat.
63. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
65. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
66. Not out.
67. Remaining after all deductions.
70. A sudden desire.
74. Wood of a larch tree.
76. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
77. A city in northern India.
82. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound.
85. Perversely irritable.
86. (heraldry) Applied to a fish depicted horizontally.
88. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
89. A coil of rope or wool or yarn.
90. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
92. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
93. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
94. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
95. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
96. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
97. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
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1. Young sheep.
2. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
3. A town in central Belgium.
4. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
5. South Asian deer with three-tined antlers.
6. An accountant certified by the state.
7. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
8. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
9. A low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water.
10. (Phoenician) A fertility goddess.
11. Boas and pythons.
12. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
13. (Middle East) Usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling.
14. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
15. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
21. A river in western Europe that rises in northern France and flows generally east into Belgium where it joins the Neuse at Namur.
23. Earnest or urgent request.
26. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
27. The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).
29. Having no parts resembling rays.
31. Indigo bush.
33. A benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached.
36. The territory of Athens in ancient Greece.
37. Using language effectively to please or persuade.
38. A kind of polyester fabric.
40. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.
42. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
45. A formation of aircraft in flight.
46. Main force of a blow etc.
47. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
49. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
52. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
54. (geology) Before the appearance of life.
56. A liquid preparation used on wet hair to it a tint.
58. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
62. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
64. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
68. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
69. A plumbing fixture (usually attached to the wall) used by men to urinate.
71. Any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones.
72. Refuse to acknowledge.
73. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
75. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
78. One-hundredth of a right angle.
79. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
80. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
81. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
83. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
84. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
87. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
91. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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