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1. A small piece of cloth.
4. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
9. Informal terms for money.
13. An honorary degree in science.
16. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
17. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high).
18. A fit of shivering.
19. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
20. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
22. Used of hair.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. Put a new heel on.
27. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
29. (botany) Especially of leaves.
31. An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.
33. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
34. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
37. Having help.
41. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
44. Rounded like an egg.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. Of or relating to or derived from or containing boron.
50. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
52. Pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment.
53. In an exposed manner.
57. Type genus of the Amiidae.
58. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
60. Being one more than nine.
61. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
62. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
63. Having a specified kind of border or edge.
66. Not widely known.
68. Half the width of an em.
69. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
71. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
75. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
79. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
81. A member of a people in India living in Orissa and neighboring areas.
82. Personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation.
86. A lake in northwestern Russia.
89. A state of confusion and disorderliness.
91. Gloves worn by fielders in baseball.
92. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
93. Showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality.
96. A city in northwestern Syria.
97. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
98. Shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed.
99. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
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1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. Jordan's port.
3. A preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing.
4. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
5. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
6. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
7. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws.
8. The third month of the civil year.
9. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
10. Largest known toad species.
11. In some classifications considered a genus of the subfamily Lutrinae.
12. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
13. Drive away by crying "shoo!".
14. The person or thing rejected or set aside as inferior in quality.
15. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
21. Hindu sacred text instructing the Brahmins to perform the Vedic rituals.
23. The basic unit of money in China.
26. Late time of life.
28. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
30. An argument in which the participants are trying to gain some advantage.
32. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
35. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
36. A polite name for any woman.
38. Any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads.
39. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
40. An imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian.
42. Marked for certain death.
43. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
45. The capital and largest city of Lithuania.
46. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
49. Bar temporarily.
51. A movable organ for flying (one of a pair).
54. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. Indigo bush.
56. Being nothing more than specified.
59. Russian country house.
64. Periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles.
65. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
67. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
72. United States writer (born in 1923).
73. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
74. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
75. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
76. A sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains.
77. An effortful attempt to attain a goal.
78. Type genus of the Gavidae.
80. Hairpiece covering the head and made of human or synthetic hair.
83. Any of the three Fates or goddesses of destiny.
84. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
85. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
87. Divisible by two.
88. Type genus of the Nepidae.
90. A unit of pressure.
94. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
95. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
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