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1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. Sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors.
8. A Scottish word.
12. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
16. An accidental happening.
17. A powerful operating system developed at the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
18. A primeval personification of air and breath.
19. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
20. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
21. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
22. Avatar of Vishnu.
23. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
24. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
26. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
29. American ornithologist and artist (born in Haiti) noted for his paintings of birds of America (1785-1851).
30. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
32. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
35. Being nine more than forty.
37. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
44. A man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat.
46. The sister of your father or mother.
48. Mix up or confuse.
51. Used of a single unit or thing.
52. Israeli violinist (born in 1948).
54. Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948).
55. Characteristic of false pride.
57. Covered with beads of liquid.
59. Spanish singer noted for his ballads and love songs (born in 1943).
61. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
63. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
64. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
65. Being one more than two.
68. A Russian river.
69. A narrow way or road.
71. A city in southern Japan on Kyushu.
73. An accountant certified by the state.
75. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
77. A province in north-central China.
81. Weapon consisting of a fighting ax.
84. The capital and largest city of Norway.
87. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
88. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
91. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
92. Family based on male descent.
93. Immeasurably small.
95. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
96. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
97. Type and sole genus of the family Leiopelmatidae.
98. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
6. The most northwestern Hawaiian island (beyond Kauai).
7. A residential area outside of a city and beyond suburbia.
8. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
9. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
10. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
11. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
12. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
13. A person who is rejected (from society or home).
14. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
15. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
25. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
27. A wandering scholar in medieval Europe.
28. Supported on gimbals and remaining steady or level when the base tips.
31. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
33. Being of the age 13 through 19.
34. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
36. A nation in northern North America.
39. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
40. A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas.
42. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
43. (botany) Especially of plant parts.
45. Having three dimensions.
47. A state in east central United States.
49. A mountain in south central Alaska.
50. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
53. A change for the better.
56. Type genus of the Nepidae.
58. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
60. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
62. A city in northern Iraq on the River Tigris across from the ruins of Nineveh.
66. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
67. Completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose.
68. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
70. A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma).
72. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
74. A manicurist who trims the fingernails.
75. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
76. Of or like a cecum.
78. A ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority.
79. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
80. Beads threaded on a string.
82. The quantity a cask will hold.
83. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
85. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
86. Type genus of the Anatidae.
89. A toilet in England.
90. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
94. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
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