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1. A slight amount or degree of difference.
4. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).
9. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
13. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
16. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
17. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
18. A Loloish language.
19. Liquid excretory product.
20. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
21. Supported and operated by the government of a state.
22. Closed in or surrounded or included within.
24. Show a response or a reaction to something.
26. Found along western Atlantic coast.
28. Agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central and South America and West Indies.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. A state in midwestern United States.
31. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
35. The fleshy pendulous part of the external human ear.
39. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
44. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
45. A reserve of money set aside for some purpose.
46. Small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button.
49. Acid gritty-textured fruit.
50. Physically weak.
52. A city in northeastern Ohio.
54. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
55. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
56. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
57. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
59. Make amendments to.
61. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
65. A state in northwestern North America.
66. An island of central Hawaii.
67. The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum.
70. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
71. English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975).
74. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
77. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
78. A branch of the Tai languages.
80. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries.
83. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
87. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
90. A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal).
92. A branch of the Tai languages.
93. The sixth day of the week.
94. Moving quickly and lightly.
95. (informal) Very bad.
96. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
97. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
98. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
99. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
100. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
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1. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
2. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
3. An informal term for a father.
4. Robust east Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers.
5. The month following September and preceding November.
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. Animal food for browsing or grazing.
8. Punish with an arbitrary penalty.
9. Cheese containing a blue mold.
10. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
11. An act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification).
12. (Turkey) Parched crushed wheat.
13. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
14. Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root.
15. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
23. A large number or amount.
25. United States poet and critic (1916-1986).
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
33. Type genus of the Ranidae.
34. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
36. Type genus of the Odobenidae.
37. The peers of a kingdom considered as a group.
38. Expressed by.
40. Large brightly crested bird of Africa.
41. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
42. A compact mass.
43. (mathematics) Directly proportional.
47. Jordan's port.
48. Depressing in character or appearance.
51. 16 ounces.
53. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
58. One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.
60. (India) The driver and keeper of an elephant.
62. Vine snakes.
63. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
64. Taken before a meal as an appetizer.
68. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
69. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
72. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
73. A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables.
75. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
76. Small songbirds resembling larks.
79. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
81. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
82. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
84. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
85. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
86. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and to have pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441).
88. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
89. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
91. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
92. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
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