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1. A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck.
5. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
9. A major god.
13. A solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner.
16. On or toward the lee.
17. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
18. A Russian river.
19. Being six more than fifty.
20. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
21. A severe shortage (especially a shortage of food).
22. English translator and Protestant martyr.
24. The capital and largest city of France.
26. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
27. In a useful manner.
29. Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions.
32. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
33. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
36. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
37. Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody.
41. Jordan's port.
42. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
44. The sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing a developing bud.
45. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
46. A surface burn.
49. Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk.
50. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
54. Make or cause to be or to become.
56. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
57. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
59. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
60. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
61. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
62. Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).
64. Lacking kindness.
66. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
67. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
69. Line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) toward the enemy.
71. That is to say.
72. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
74. From sins, as in religious dogma.
77. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
78. The square of a body of any size of type.
79. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
81. Pygmy marmosets.
89. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
90. Small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves.
92. Spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth.
93. Metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep.
94. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
95. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
97. Not divisible by two.
98. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
99. Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide.
100. At any time.
101. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
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1. A fastener for a door or lid.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. Located in or toward the back or rear.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. An awkward stupid person.
6. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
7. Any of several free-flowering tropical or subtropical shrubs of the genus Hamelia.
8. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
9. The thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest.
10. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
11. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
12. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
13. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
14. Rounded like an egg.
15. Marked by skill in deception.
23. A whimsically eccentric person.
25. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
28. Small branch or division of a branch.
30. Informal terms for a mother.
31. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
34. Motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis.
35. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
38. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
39. Abnormally long muscular contractions.
40. Having all been spent.
43. An act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification).
47. Large aquatic animal supposed to resemble a serpent or plesiosaur of Loch Ness in Scotland.
48. A very light brown.
51. A roll of ribbon.
52. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
53. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
55. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
58. Dearly loved.
63. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
65. Summer cypress.
68. Of or pertaining to the adrenal glands or their secretions.
69. An awkward stupid person.
70. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
73. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
75. A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.).
76. Any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles.
80. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.
82. Very dark black.
83. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
84. (New Testament) The Apostle closely associated with St Paul and traditionally assumed to be the author of the third Gospel.
85. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
86. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
87. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
88. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
91. A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock.
96. The eleventh month of the civil year.
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