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1. Being of delicate or slender build.
5. Used especially of mail.
13. A bachelor's degree in library science.
17. Having or prompted by wisdom or discernment.
18. Not chaste.
19. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
20. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
22. The unit of plane angle adopted under the System International d'Unites.
23. A whetstone made of fine gritstone.
24. Physically weak.
26. A tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game.
27. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
28. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
29. Being nine more than ninety.
31. (biology) Shed at an early stage of development.
32. State in northeastern India.
35. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. A thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices.
44. Fastened with stitches.
46. Of or relating to a dialect of Sotho or the Bantu people who speak it.
50. Used of a single unit or thing.
51. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
52. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. South American caracara.
57. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
58. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
60. The academic world.
62. English essayist (1775-1834).
64. Southeastern Asian perennial with aromatic roots.
66. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
67. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
68. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
70. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
71. A Loloish language.
72. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
75. (zoology) Relating to frogs and toads.
81. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
83. A seaport in northwestern Italy.
85. The capital and largest city of Liechtenstein.
89. A three-tone Chadic language.
92. Any of various plants of the genus Albuca having large clusters of pale yellow flowers.
94. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
95. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
96. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
98. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
99. An advanced law degree.
100. The sign language used in the United States.
101. Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle).
102. A small cake leavened with yeast.
103. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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1. Moving very fast.
2. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.
3. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
4. Health care for the aged.
5. A humorous play on words.
6. In operation or operational.
7. Sharp piercing cry.
8. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
9. A genus of Ploceidae.
10. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
11. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
12. The habitation of wild animals.
13. The gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'.
14. Loud confused noise from many sources.
15. A long pointed rod used as a weapon.
16. (literary) Spirited horse for state or war.
21. By bad luck.
25. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
30. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
33. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
34. The capital of Bahrain.
36. The pelt of a leopard.
37. For a short time.
39. (informal) A bunch.
40. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.
42. A state in midwestern United States.
43. Insoluble pigments that account for the color of e.g. skin and scales and feathers.
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
47. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
48. Of or like a feeble old woman.
49. A state in New England.
53. A flexible container with a single opening.
55. Of or like a cecum.
56. Fool's parsley.
59. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
61. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
63. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
65. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
69. A state in northwestern North America.
73. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
74. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
76. A state in the western United States.
77. Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions.
78. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
79. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
80. Any taillike structure.
82. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
83. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
84. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
85. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
86. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
87. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
88. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
90. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
91. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
92. Before noon.
93. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
97. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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