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1. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
5. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
9. South African term for `boss'.
13. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
16. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
17. In bed.
18. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
19. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
20. Little known Kamarupan languages.
21. Stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere.
23. A block of absorbent material saturated with ink.
24. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
26. A flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries.
28. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
29. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
31. Struck with fear, dread, or consternation.
34. A rudaceous rock consisting of sharp fragments embedded in clay or sand.
38. Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression).
41. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
42. Capable of being supported by argument.
46. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
47. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
49. Be in contradiction with.
50. A disorderly outburst or tumult.
52. A surface burn.
54. Lean end of the neck.
57. A capacious bag or basket.
58. A tumor of bone tissue.
60. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
61. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
62. An edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter).
63. Fit or suitable to live in or with.
64. Steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs.
66. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
68. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
69. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
70. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
73. Gum-like substance from the sapodilla.
76. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
78. (Babylonian) Earth goddess.
82. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
86. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
87. Tropical Asiatic perennial herbs.
90. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
92. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
93. Remote in manner.
94. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
96. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
97. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
98. A genus of Lamnidae.
99. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
100. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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1. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
2. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
3. Highly excited.
4. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
5. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa).
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784).
8. Declare or acknowledge to be true.
9. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. Black tropical American cuckoo.
12. A shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot.
13. A tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes.
14. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
15. English monk and scholar (672-735).
22. A Russian river.
25. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
27. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
30. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
32. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
33. Chiefly Old World herbs or shrubs.
35. Consistent with or based on or using reason.
36. The latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall).
37. The capital and largest city of Kenya.
39. Rod-shaped gram-negative enterobacteria.
40. Strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear.
43. Used of the language of the deaf.
44. Undergo ulceration.
45. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
48. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
51. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
53. A large edible clam found burrowing deeply in sandy mud along the Pacific coast of North America.
55. Offering fun and gaiety.
56. A warning against certain acts.
59. A white trivalent metallic element.
65. Of or relating to the philosophical study of ethics.
66. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa).
67. Informal terms for clothing.
68. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
71. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
72. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
74. Any plant of the genus Inula.
75. A glancing rebound.
77. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
79. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
80. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
81. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
83. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
84. A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British).
85. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
88. An argument opposed to a proposal.
89. A city in the European part of Russia.
91. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
95. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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