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1. The compass point that is one point west of due south.
4. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
8. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
12. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
18. Elegant and stylish.
19. Articles of the same kind or material.
20. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
22. A great waterfall on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
24. Again but in a new or different way.
25. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
28. Common house and field crickets.
29. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.
32. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
37. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
40. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
42. A resource.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. Informal terms for a mother.
47. Complacently or inanely foolish.
48. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
51. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
56. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
58. United States baseball player (born 1925).
60. A state in midwestern United States.
61. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
62. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
63. Aroused to impatience or anger.
66. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
67. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
69. Of or relating to the uvea of the eye.
70. Of or belonging to an enemy.
71. A string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language.
74. Having a claw or claws.
77. A language spoken by a Malaysian people on Formosa.
79. A town in east central Missouri.
83. Reports of the work of a society or learned body etc.
85. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
87. Fallow deer.
88. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
89. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
92. Lacking companions or companionship.
94. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
95. How long something has existed.
96. Greek mythology.
97. A primeval personification of air and breath.
98. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
99. A loud harsh or strident noise.
100. To come or go into.
101. Produced by a manufacturing process.
102. The habitation of wild animals.
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1. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust.
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
4. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
5. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
6. A doctor's degree in religion.
7. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
8. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
9. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
10. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. A festival featuring African-American culture.
13. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
14. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
15. New information about specific and timely events.
21. A port city in southwestern Iran.
23. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. An associate degree in nursing.
30. Sensationalist journalism.
31. Before noon.
33. A member of a Kannada-speaking group of people living chiefly in Kanara in southern India.
34. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
38. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
39. In a bawdy manner.
41. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
43. A special loved one.
49. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
50. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
52. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
53. Show submission or fear.
54. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
55. The father of your father or mother.
57. A genus of Bothidae.
59. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
64. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
65. Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people).
68. Align anew or better.
69. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
72. Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930).
73. An antifungal and antibiotic (trade names Mycostatin and Nystan) discovered in New York State.
75. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
76. Freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk.
78. The eighth month of the civil year.
79. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
80. Closed with a lace.
81. An iconic mental representation.
82. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
84. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
86. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
90. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
91. Towards the side away from the wind.
93. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
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