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1. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
4. A telegram sent abroad.
9. A lyric poet.
13. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
16. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
17. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
18. Being two more than sixty.
19. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
20. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
21. Any plant of the genus Erica.
22. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
23. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
24. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
26. Suitable for use as food.
29. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
31. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
33. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
34. The capital of Eritrea.
37. (British) A paved surface on which cars can be made to skid so that drivers can practice controlling them.
41. A swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building.
42. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.
45. Spin or twist together so as to form a cord.
48. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
49. A republic in central Europe.
52. The month following February and preceding April.
53. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
54. A public promotion of some product or service.
56. Constituting the full quantity or extent.
58. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
60. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
63. Gone by.
64. American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit.
65. Mediterranean germander having small hairy leaves and reddish purple flowers.
66. A Russian river.
69. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
71. A member of a Dravidian people living on the southwestern coast of India.
72. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
74. (informal) Of the highest quality.
76. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
78. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
79. An ax used to slaughter cattle.
82. A Chadic language spoken in the Mandara mountains in Cameroon.
86. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
87. Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning.
91. A young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men.
94. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
95. Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead.
97. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
98. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
100. Chief port of Yemen.
102. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
103. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
104. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
105. One thousandth of a second.
106. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A genus of Mustelidae.
3. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
4. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Soft creamy white cheese.
7. Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area.
8. Related on the mother's side.
9. Divulge information or secrets.
10. The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.
11. A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
12. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
13. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
14. Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam.
15. Squash bugs.
25. Mites and ticks.
27. An associate degree in applied science.
28. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
30. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
32. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
35. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
36. Type genus of the Monodontidae.
38. Small North American falcon.
39. Made of fir or pine.
40. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
43. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
44. A river in the east central United States.
46. A small flexible tube inserted into a body cavity for draining off fluid or introducing medication.
47. Dutch Renaissance scholar and Roman Catholic theologian who attacked the theology of Martin Luther (1466-1536).
50. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
51. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
55. Fallow deer.
57. Any of various widely distributed beetles.
59. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
61. A small cake leavened with yeast.
62. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
67. French philosopher and theologian.
68. A French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750).
70. An informal term for a father.
73. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
75. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
77. A light touch or stroke.
80. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
81. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe.
83. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
84. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
85. Affect with wonder.
88. Being two more than ninety.
89. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
90. Complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost.
92. A coffin along with its stand.
93. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
96. Towards the side away from the wind.
99. 1/10 gram.
101. A state in southeastern United States.
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