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1. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
4. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
9. Taken or to be taken at random.
13. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
16. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
17. Loss of the ability to move a body part.
18. Not widely known.
19. A human limb.
20. Water frozen in the solid state.
21. Lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food.
22. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
23. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
26. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
27. Belonging to some prior time.
29. God of love and erotic desire.
30. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
31. A public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music.
32. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
34. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
38. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
40. Used improperly or excessively especially drugs.
45. The capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa.
48. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
50. Joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces.
51. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
52. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
55. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
57. Hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas.
60. Having a long narrow cut.
61. Any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone.
62. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
64. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
65. French dramatist (born in Romania) who was a leading exponent of the theater of the absurd (1912-1994).
68. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
69. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
71. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
74. The basic unit of money in Finland.
75. Offensively discourteous.
79. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
82. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
85. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
86. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
87. Congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters).
90. Move out of a curled position.
91. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
92. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
93. The state of owing money.
95. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
96. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
97. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
98. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
99. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A mixer incorporating a coil of wires.
2. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
3. Hot or warm and humid.
4. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
5. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
6. Austrian painter influenced by art nouveau (1862-1918).
7. A city in southern Finland.
8. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
9. The father of your father or mother.
10. Used of decomposing oils or fats.
11. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
12. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
13. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
14. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
15. A city in northern India.
25. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
28. 1 species.
33. A young woman making her debut into society.
35. A representation of common ground between theories or phenomena.
36. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
37. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
39. French sculptor of monumental female nudes (1861-1944).
41. Floating ball that controls level in a water tank.
42. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
43. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
44. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
46. Relating to the condition of immunity.
47. An adult castrated bull of the genus Bos.
49. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
53. A radioactive transuranic element.
54. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
56. A white secretion of the sebaceous glands of the foreskin.
58. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
59. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
63. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
66. Large black gibbon of Sumatra having the 2nd and 3rd toes partially united by a web.
67. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
68. Austrian painter influenced by art nouveau (1862-1918).
70. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
71. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
72. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
73. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
74. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
76. Any plant of the genus Inula.
77. Of inferior or mixed breed.
78. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
80. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
81. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
83. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
84. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
88. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
89. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
94. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
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