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1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
5. A city in east central Texas.
9. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
13. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
16. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
17. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
18. A telephone connection.
19. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
20. German statesman who served as chancellor of Germany (born in 1918).
22. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
24. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
25. Of or relating to or involving an area.
26. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
28. Call upon in supplication.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. A gambling card game of Spanish origin.
32. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
34. An adult castrated bull of the genus Bos.
35. The bill in a restaurant.
41. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
46. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
47. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
48. An associate degree in nursing.
49. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
50. United States Film actress and daughter of Henry Fonda (born in 1937).
51. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
52. The cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions.
55. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
58. Hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes.
60. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
61. A detested person.
62. A maker of laws.
65. A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times.
66. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
69. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
70. A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money.
72. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
73. Wife of Balder.
74. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
76. A state in northwestern North America.
78. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
79. Capital of modern Macedonia.
82. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
85. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
89. Having physical sensation.
92. Island in West Indies.
94. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
95. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
96. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
98. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
99. A decree that prohibits something.
100. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
101. 100 aurar equal 1 krona.
102. A small cake leavened with yeast.
103. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
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1. State in northeastern India.
2. Extremely small in scale or scope or capability.
3. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion.
4. A localized swelling filled with blood.
5. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
6. An honorary arts degree.
7. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
8. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
11. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
12. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
15. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
21. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
23. A sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid.
27. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
29. Small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. Erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. A wooden bucket.
39. Of or relating to a caduceus.
40. Wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi.
42. Genus of tropical hardwood timber trees.
43. A deep pan with a handle.
44. Any ameba of the genus Endamoeba.
45. A quantity that is added.
53. One-hundredth of a right angle.
54. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
56. A white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide.
57. Atlas moth.
59. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
63. One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada.
64. With rapid movements.
67. A state in midwestern United States.
68. A cigar made with light-colored tobacco.
71. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
72. A public promotion of some product or service.
75. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
77. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. (prefix) Half or partial.
81. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
83. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
84. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
85. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
86. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
87. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
88. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
90. God of war and sky.
91. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
93. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
97. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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