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1. The month following September and preceding November.
4. A primeval personification of air and breath.
8. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
12. Male red deer.
16. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
18. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
19. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn.
20. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
22. An immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull).
24. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
25. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
26. Kauri pine.
28. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
30. The mother of Jesus.
31. The basic unit of money in Yemen.
32. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
34. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
35. A human female who does housework.
37. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
40. A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu.
46. A West African language closely related to Fula.
48. Wild and menacing.
49. The fans of a sport or famous person.
52. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
53. The face or front of a building.
54. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
55. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
58. (used especially of persons) Having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
62. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
63. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves.
65. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
69. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
70. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
71. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
75. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
77. Order by virtue of superior authority.
81. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
84. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
87. An Eskimo hut.
88. Absent without permission.
89. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
92. Unwind or untwist.
93. The central area of a church.
94. Weaponry used by military or naval force.
96. Weapons considered collectively.
97. Two items of the same kind.
98. West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood.
99. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
2. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
3. A worker who lays tile.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. Covered with paving material.
6. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
7. The seventh month of the civil year.
8. A blind god.
9. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
10. A law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law.
11. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
12. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
13. Relating to or located near a tibia.
14. Sour or bitter in taste.
15. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
21. A check issued in payment of wages or salary.
23. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
27. Type genus of the Giraffidae.
29. A state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal.
33. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
36. Any of a group of hard crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates of potassium or sodium or calcium or barium.
38. A diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls.
39. A covered passageway.
41. A cooperative unit.
42. Used of idealized country life.
43. South African term for `boss'.
44. Not disposed to cheat or defraud.
45. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
47. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
50. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
51. Indigo bush.
56. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
57. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
61. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
64. Set afire.
65. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
66. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
67. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
68. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
69. Relating to or located near a tibia.
72. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
73. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means.
74. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
76. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
78. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
79. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
80. A major city of northeastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas river.
82. Distant in either space or time.
83. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
85. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
86. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
90. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
91. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
95. A state in southeastern United States.
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