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1. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
4. An informal term for a father.
8. The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries.
12. A thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices.
16. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
17. An endorsement.
18. Employed in accomplishing something.
19. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
20. Coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position.
22. A crime syndicate in the United States.
25. Being nine more than forty.
26. Not only so, but.
29. The superior of an abbey of monks.
31. A toxic protein extracted from castor beans.
33. Travel up, "We ascended the mountain".
35. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
36. Repeated regularly without thought or originality.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. Being one more than fifty.
41. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
46. A resident of Iowa.
49. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.
52. A German city near Leipzig.
54. Having wisdom that comes with age and experience.
55. Fermented juice (of grapes especially).
56. Similar to the color of fresh grass.
58. An Eskimo hut.
59. The upper end of a bitt.
61. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
62. The small projection of a mammary gland.
63. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
64. Belonging to some prior time.
65. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
67. That is to say.
68. Dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America.
72. A republic in eastern Africa.
76. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
82. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
85. A state in southeastern United States.
88. Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
89. Wool of the alpaca.
90. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
92. Not very intelligent or interested in culture.
93. A city of central China.
94. Convert into, or infiltrate with melanin.
96. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
97. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
98. Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928).
99. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Resist or confront with resistance.
2. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
3. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
4. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
5. A state in northwestern North America.
6. The ability and desire to purchase goods and services.
7. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. On equal terms by payment or requital.
9. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
10. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
11. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
12. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
13. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
14. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
15. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
21. Heavy and compact in form or stature.
23. A woman who is engaged to be married.
24. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
27. Step on it.
28. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
30. Drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling.
32. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
34. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
37. One of four subclasses or superorders of Monocotyledones.
39. Erect plant with small clusters of pink trumpet-shaped flowers of southwestern United States.
42. A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
43. The tissue forming the hard outer layer of e.g. a fruit.
44. Only the bowfins.
45. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
47. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
48. Of grammatical gender.
50. An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term).
51. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
53. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
57. Any competition.
60. United States golfer who won many major golf tournaments (born in 1912).
66. A choice or delicious dish.
69. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
70. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
71. Large Old World butterflies.
72. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
73. A potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine.
74. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
75. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
77. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
78. Thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game.
79. A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something.
80. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
81. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
83. English essayist (1775-1834).
84. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
86. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
87. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
91. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
95. The square of a body of any size of type.
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