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1. Noisy talk.
4. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
9. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
13. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
16. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
17. A speech sound made with the vocal tract open.
18. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. Gone by.
21. Age or bleach flour with Agene (nitrogen trichloride).
23. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
25. A blind god.
27. French artist who immigrated to the United States.
28. A quantity of no importance.
29. An awkward stupid person.
31. The airforce of Great Britain.
32. A rapid bustling commotion.
34. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
43. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
44. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
47. A strong flame that burns brightly.
48. One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.
49. Resembling an umbel in form.
52. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
53. Very light colored.
54. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
55. Disparaging terms for small people.
56. Very attentive or observant.
58. Supporting stalk or stemlike structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap.
60. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
61. (Irish) The sea personified.
62. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
64. Give over.
65. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
66. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
68. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
72. Largest city of Tennessee.
76. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
78. Courtesy towards women.
81. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
85. Being in a tense state.
87. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
90. Punished by the imposition of a penalty.
91. Not wide.
93. A republic on the Isthmus of Panama.
95. A three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides.
96. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
97. A speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels).
99. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
100. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
101. Poisonous herbs.
102. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Not only so, but.
2. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
3. A tight cluster of people or things.
4. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
5. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
6. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
7. Type and sole genus of the family Menuridae.
8. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
9. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
10. That is to say.
11. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
14. In bed.
15. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
22. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
24. Sucking lice.
26. A person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use.
30. A threadlike anatomical structure or chainlike series of cells.
33. A young woman making her debut into society.
35. (chemistry) Relating to or containing an alkali.
36. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
37. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
38. Appear again.
39. The month following September and preceding November.
40. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
41. The god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami.
42. Neither moral nor immoral.
45. A subdivision of a larger religious group.
46. Flesh of large European flatfish.
50. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
51. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
57. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
59. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
63. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
67. Type genus of the Sphyrnidae.
68. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
69. (Hinduism and Buddhism) The beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation.
70. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
71. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
72. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
73. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
74. An expression of greeting.
75. Being one more than three.
77. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
79. The fur of a rabbit.
80. A language group of the Hokan family.
81. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
82. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
83. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
84. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
86. Herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.
88. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
89. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
90. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
92. Seek someone's favor.
94. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
98. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
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