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1. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
5. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
9. Flat blade-like projection on the arm of an anchor.
13. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
16. One of the Muslim people of Africa.
17. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
18. Short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears.
19. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
20. French dramatist (born in Romania) who was a leading exponent of the theater of the absurd (1912-1994).
22. (sports) Someone in charge of training an athlete or a team.
24. The right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice.
26. That which weakens or causes a loss of strength.
28. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
29. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
31. Not equal in amount.
32. Subject to or requiring payment especially as specified.
35. Not challenging.
37. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
38. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
41. A Loloish language.
44. Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945).
46. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
48. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
50. A toilet in England.
51. The state of being decayed or destroyed.
53. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
54. Very large red gum tree.
55. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
57. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
59. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
61. (Irish) The sea personified.
62. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
64. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
67. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
68. Shape anew or differently.
72. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
73. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
77. In operation or operational.
78. A domain in which something is dominant.
80. East Asian perennial herbs.
84. Characterized by the interdependence of living organisms in an environment.
88. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
89. Given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality.
91. A member of the Siouan people of southeastern Mississippi.
92. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
93. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
94. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
96. Injured by bites or stings.
97. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
98. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
99. A small cake leavened with yeast.
100. The chance to speak.
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1. Type genus of the Amiidae.
2. Representation of the cross on which Jesus died.
3. A procession of land vehicles traveling together.
4. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
6. English chemist and physicist.
7. A state in midwestern United States.
8. The last (12th) month of the year.
9. An imperfection in a device or machine.
10. A school for students intermediate between elementary school and college.
11. Remove the hand from.
12. (combining form) Former.
13. United States showman who popularized the circus (1810-1891).
14. Transient cessation of respiration.
15. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
21. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
23. Mexican liquor made from fermented juices of an Agave plant.
25. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
27. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
30. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
33. Characteristic of the dawn.
34. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
36. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
39. Of or relating to near the ear.
40. Made by polymerizing butadiene.
42. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.
43. Of or relating to or characteristic of Zaire or its people.
45. Walk unsteadily, as of small children.
47. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
49. A unit of traffic intensity in a telephone system.
52. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
56. A small drink.
58. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
60. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
63. Having a strong distinctive fragrance.
65. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
66. A 10% solution of formaldehyde in water.
69. Genus of tropical hardwood timber trees.
70. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
71. Genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers.
74. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
75. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
76. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
79. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
81. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
82. Any small compartment.
83. Not only so, but.
85. A large number or amount.
86. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
87. A large and densely populated urban area.
90. An informal term for a father.
95. Informal terms for a mother.
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