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1. 100 puls equal 1 afghani.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
12. (football) Of advancing the ball by throwing it.
16. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
17. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
18. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
19. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
20. A block of absorbent material saturated with ink.
22. A member of the Dravidian people living in southern India.
24. Slightly wet.
25. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
26. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
28. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
29. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
31. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
32. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
33. A list of dishes available at a restaurant.
38. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. Common Indian weaverbird.
46. Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox.
48. An Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374).
50. Tag the base runner to get him out.
51. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
53. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the western Dakotas.
55. African antelopes.
58. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
59. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
60. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine.
61. Cause a floating log to rotate by treading.
62. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
63. Act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief.
65. Having few if any teeth.
67. An associate degree in nursing.
68. The beginning of anything.
69. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
72. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
74. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
79. United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971).
83. Used in combination.
84. Type genus of the Ariidae.
85. Jordan's port.
87. One million periods per second.
89. A master's degree in business.
90. A small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot.
92. A small cake leavened with yeast.
94. (British) Your grandmother.
95. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
96. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
97. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
98. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top.
2. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
3. A sweet filling made of prunes or apricots.
4. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
5. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
6. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
7. Serving as or forming a base.
8. Widespread genus or herbs or soft-wooded arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers.
9. By bad luck.
10. A waiter at a drive-in restaurant.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
15. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
21. Affiliated with one party or faction.
23. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
27. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
30. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
34. A substance that abrades or wears down.
35. Narrow and long and pointed.
36. Wife of Ramachandra.
37. First woman aviator to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic (1928).
39. The capital of Bahrain.
40. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
41. Of or pertaining to Sabah or its people.
43. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
44. (Old Testament) A youth who was taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into a den of lions (6th century BC).
47. Accumulation in the blood of nitrogen-bearing waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine.
49. A short heavy curved sword with one edge.
52. Showing extreme cupidity.
54. A town in western Kentucky on the Ohio River.
56. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
57. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
64. Something given or done as an expression of esteem.
65. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
66. A light touch or stroke.
70. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
71. A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university).
73. The capital of Cape Verde on Sao Tiago Island.
74. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
75. Jordan's port.
76. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
77. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
78. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
80. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
81. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
82. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
86. A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus).
88. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
89. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
91. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
93. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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