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1. Any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge.
5. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain.
16. Type genus of the Nepidae.
17. The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.
18. Any plant of the genus Hoya having fleshy leaves and usually nectariferous flowers.
19. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
20. The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service.
21. A narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative.
23. A former province of northern France near the English Channel (between Picardy and Flanders).
25. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
27. Cause to be more favorably inclined.
29. A city in northern India.
30. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
32. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
33. Someone whose talk is trivial drivel.
38. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
39. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
43. The sixth month of the civil year.
44. Let or forced out of the lungs.
47. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. Relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean.
51. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
52. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
54. An expression of greeting.
55. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
56. Rice cooked with broth and sprinkled with grated cheese.
59. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
63. French modeler (resident in England after 1802) who made wax death masks of prominent victims of the French Revolution and toured Britain with her wax models.
64. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
65. Not reflecting light.
66. Occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion.
67. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
68. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
69. A state in midwestern United States.
70. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
72. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
75. (used of especially horses) Having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray.
77. Shake violently.
82. Rounded like an egg.
83. (formal) A person who announces important news.
84. (Welsh) A warrior god.
87. Annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles.
89. Lacking social polish.
92. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
93. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
94. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
96. Wild goose having white adult plumage.
97. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
98. The seed of the cereal grass.
99. Minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root.
100. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
101. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
102. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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1. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
2. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
3. The capital of Western Samoa.
4. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
5. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
6. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
7. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
8. By bad luck.
9. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
10. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
11. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
14. A low dam built across a stream to raise its level or divert its flow.
15. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
22. A major waterfall in southern Africa.
24. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
26. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
28. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
31. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
34. 1 species.
35. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
36. Cause to explode.
37. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
40. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
41. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
42. Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit.
45. The ratio of reflected to incident light.
46. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
50. A professional cook.
53. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
57. A small bone.
58. A city in southeastern South Korea.
60. A small valve (or valve-like structure).
61. Little known Kamarupan languages.
62. Without moral standards or principles.
71. Towards the shore from the water.
73. Advance evidence for.
74. After a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like `likewise' or `also'.
75. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
76. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
78. The organ that bears the ovules of a flower.
79. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
80. Any of various plants of the genus Sedum.
81. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
85. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
86. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
88. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
90. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
91. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
95. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
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