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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. A stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually containing e.g. currents and citron.
8. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
12. Work hard.
16. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
17. English essayist (1775-1834).
18. Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron.
19. (prefix) Within.
20. An affirmative.
21. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
22. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
23. A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. A rosid dicot genus that includes moon carrots.
31. Motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis.
33. The father of your father or mother.
36. An oil port in southern Iraq.
39. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
40. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
44. Filled or abounding with fog or mist.
45. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living along the Mohawk River in New York state.
47. The formation of frost or ice on a surface.
48. Goddess of fertility.
50. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
51. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
52. (British) Your grandmother.
54. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
58. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
60. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
62. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
64. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
65. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
66. A landlocked republic in central Europe.
68. In bed.
69. Suggestive of the supernatural.
72. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
73. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
75. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
76. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
79. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
83. An underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea v 1.
88. 20 aspers equal 1 kuru.
90. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
91. Minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves.
93. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
94. A republic in central Europe.
96. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
97. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
98. An armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force).
99. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
100. The specified day of the month.
101. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. (used as intensives) Extremely.
5. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
6. A fractional monetary unit in Bahrain and Iraq and Jordan and Kuwait and Southern Yemen and Yemen.
7. An agenda of things to do.
8. Medium tall celery pine of New Zealand.
9. Any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis.
10. American breed of chicken having barred gray plumage raised for meat and brown eggs.
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. An iron-clad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North.
13. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
14. The content of cognition.
15. Hang loosely or laxly.
25. A Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed people of northern Siberia.
27. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
28. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. Coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms.
30. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
32. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
34. Capable of being raised.
35. Fallow deer.
37. Having feathered wings.
38. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
41. A constitutional monarchy in a tiny enclave on the French Riviera.
42. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
43. Being three more than fifty.
46. Large marine snail much used as food in Europe.
49. South African term for `boss'.
53. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
55. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
56. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
57. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
59. The sixth month of the civil year.
61. Be about.
63. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
67. Genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers.
68. An agenda of things to do.
70. (usually plural) A destructive action.
71. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. Elk or moose.
78. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
80. A drama set to music.
81. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
82. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
84. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
85. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
86. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
87. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
89. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
90. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
92. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
95. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
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