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1. A thin strip (wood or metal).
5. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
9. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
13. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
16. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
17. A German man.
18. Avatar of Vishnu.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
21. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
23. Someone who tells lies.
25. A German city near Leipzig.
27. A Greek dialect that flourished under the Roman Empire.
29. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
30. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
32. The highest level or degree attainable.
34. Weapons considered collectively.
35. (British abbreviation) "he accepted it on appro".
38. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
39. An uproarious party.
40. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
41. National capital of Kiribati.
43. Regional and archaic.
48. A city in east-central France on the Rhone River.
49. 5 khoums equal 1 ouguiya.
51. The capital of Eritrea.
54. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
55. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
57. Raise trivial objections.
58. A word that can be used to refer to a person or place or thing.
60. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
64. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
65. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
66. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
67. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
69. A small quantity of liquid.
71. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.
72. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
74. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
75. Having been read.
76. (religion) Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the branch of Protestantism adhering to the views of Wesley.
80. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
81. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
82. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
86. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
90. A criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it.
92. The Muskhogean language of the Choctaw people.
94. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
95. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
96. Garlic mayonnaise.
98. A large number or amount.
99. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
100. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
101. (of an arrow) Equipped with feathers.
102. The act of catching an object with the hands.
103. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth.
2. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
3. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
4. A fast sailboat with 3 parallel hulls.
5. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
6. The quantity contained in a keg.
7. A small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra.
8. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
9. Perennial evergreen herbs with white or pink flowers.
10. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
11. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
12. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
15. A game played with playing cards.
22. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
24. South African term for `boss'.
26. Beside one another in a row or rank.
28. The square of a body of any size of type.
31. A state in the eastern United States.
33. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
36. The part of a missile or torpedo that carries the explosive charge.
37. Minute wingless arthropods.
42. Jordan's port.
44. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
45. Loon family.
46. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
47. Of animals.
50. A secret store of valuables or money.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. The unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar.
56. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
59. A genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers.
61. (usually followed by `to') Full of eagerness.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. A large and densely populated urban area.
68. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
70. Fictitious land described in the novel Erewhon by Samuel Butler.
71. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
73. (Greek mythology) The goddess of health.
77. Praise, glorify, or honor.
78. Having a smooth, gleaming surface.
79. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
83. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
84. Informal terms for a meal.
85. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
87. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
88. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
89. A city in northern India.
91. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
93. Of southern Europe.
97. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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