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1. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
4. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
8. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
12. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
16. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
17. A quantity of no importance.
18. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
19. Advanced in years.
20. Of or relating to Fabianism.
22. United States poet (1892-1950).
24. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
25. Type genus of the Apidae.
26. Of or relating to or characteristic of Guinea or its inhabitants.
28. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
30. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
32. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
37. A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th.
41. Aroused to impatience or anger.
46. A second-rate prize fighter.
48. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
49. A city in southeastern South Korea.
50. One who helps or encourages or incites another.
51. Of or relating to or containing cerium especially with valence 4.
53. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened.
55. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
56. Black tropical American cuckoo.
57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. (South African) An ear of corn.
61. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
62. An act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification).
65. Canadian writer (born in Sri Lanka in 1943).
68. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
69. A person forced to flee from home or country.
70. An affix that is added at the end of the word.
73. A special lineage.
74. A particular environment or walk of life.
76. (informal) Of the highest quality.
78. East Asian perennial herbs.
84. The state of owing money.
86. Recovery or preservation from loss or danger.
88. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
89. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
92. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
93. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
95. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
97. (British) Your grandmother.
98. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
99. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
100. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
101. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
3. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
4. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
5. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
6. A public promotion of some product or service.
7. A member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico.
8. Indigo bush.
9. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.
10. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
11. A source of oil.
12. Large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
15. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
21. Of or relating to or characteristic of Israel or its people.
23. Covert and involved plotting to achieve your ends.
27. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
29. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
31. Perversely irritable.
33. A official who can issue a license or give authoritative permission (especially one who licenses publications).
36. Avoiding waste.
38. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
39. Capital of modern Macedonia.
40. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
42. Expressing deep personal emotion.
43. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
44. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
45. The lowest brass wind instrument.
47. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
52. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
54. Isolated from others.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. A gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile.
63. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
64. A light brown raw cane sugar from Guyana.
66. Make less active or intense.
67. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
71. A planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky.
72. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
75. Preserve a dead body.
77. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
79. (Norse mythology) The chief race of gods living at Asgard.
80. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
81. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
85. English essayist (1775-1834).
86. A state in midwestern United States.
87. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
90. Having only superficial plausibility.
91. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
94. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
96. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
97. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
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