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1. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
5. A Loloish language.
9. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
13. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
16. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
17. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
18. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
19. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
20. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
21. One of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi.
23. A mountainous region in central Italy.
25. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
27. Especially of a ship's lines etc.
28. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
29. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
30. Small New Zealand broadleaf evergreen tree often cultivated in warm regions as an ornamental.
32. The bill in a restaurant.
36. World's longest river (4187 miles).
39. Any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres.
44. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
45. Little known Kamarupan languages.
46. Jordan's port.
48. A fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean.
50. Of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba.
51. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
53. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands.
54. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
55. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of Scotland.
57. Very attentive or observant.
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
59. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
60. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
61. Half the width of an em.
69. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
71. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
72. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
75. Of or relating to near the ear.
77. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
80. Club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron.
84. A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
87. Used especially of fabrics.
89. The capital and largest city of Japan.
92. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
93. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
94. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
95. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
96. Chief port of Yemen.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Made of or resembling lace.
3. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
4. An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
7. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
8. Of or being the lowest female voice.
9. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
10. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
11. A closed political meeting.
12. A human limb.
13. God of death.
14. The act of swimming.
15. Divulge information or secrets.
22. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
24. Occurring or payable twice each year.
26. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
31. Any of numerous small food fishes.
33. A simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids.
34. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
35. Characteristic of a baby.
37. Irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn.
38. Eruption on the skin occurring as a symptom of a disease.
40. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
42. Of or relating to or near the sacrum.
43. Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water.
47. (British) Sleep.
49. Of or relating to a creed.
52. A mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal.
56. (trademark) An antacid.
62. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
63. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
64. An audiotape recording of sound.
65. Type genus of the Lycaenidae.
66. Expect, believe, or suppose.
67. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
68. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
70. A solid mass of blastomeres that forms when the zygote splits.
73. A member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California.
74. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
76. A kind of person.
78. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
79. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
81. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
82. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
83. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
85. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
86. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
88. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
90. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
91. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
92. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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