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1. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
4. The act of mimicking.
9. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
13. A tight-fitting headdress.
16. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
17. A native American tent.
18. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
19. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
20. Of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado n 1.
22. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
24. British informal term.
25. A painter able to achieve special effects with color.
27. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
29. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
30. The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal).
31. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
33. A city of southeastern Mexico.
35. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
39. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
41. Obvious and dull.
44. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
45. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
46. Arousing or provoking laughter.
49. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
52. A Loloish language.
54. Metal shackles.
55. English monk and scholar (672-735).
56. Chief port of Yemen.
57. Being ten more than eighty.
59. Either extremity of something that has length.
60. Select as an alternative.
64. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
66. Not final or absolute.
67. (zoology) Pertaining to or characteristic of birds.
68. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
69. A public promotion of some product or service.
71. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
77. United States race driver who was the first to drive faster than a mile a minute (1878-1946).
79. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
82. Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail.
83. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
87. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
88. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
91. The production of eggs (especially in birds).
93. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
94. Distant in either space or time.
95. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
97. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
98. Affectedly dainty or refined.
99. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
100. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
101. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
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1. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
2. Genus of African timber trees.
3. Greek god of light.
4. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
5. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
6. A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme.
7. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
8. An affirmative.
9. 1 species.
10. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
11. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
12. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
13. A warning against certain acts.
14. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
15. A color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red.
21. Partly mineralized copal dug from the ground.
23. Kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts.
26. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
28. An Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers.
32. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
34. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
36. Included seven times in every 19 years.
37. Of or relating to or in the manner of the playwright Henrik Ibsen.
38. Present in great quantity.
40. Annual and perennial herbs of damp habitats.
42. Of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess.
43. Restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal.
47. A gambling card game of Spanish origin.
48. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
53. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries.
58. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
61. Being one more than six.
62. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
63. In an avid manner.
65. (usually followed by `of') Having capacity or ability.
66. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
70. The last (12th) month of the year.
72. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
73. A healthy capacity for vigorous activity.
74. Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).
75. Talk pompously.
76. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
77. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
78. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
79. A state in northwestern North America.
80. Beside one another in a row or rank.
81. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
84. A genus of Mustelidae.
85. Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals.
86. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
89. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
90. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
92. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
96. Being ten more than thirty.
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