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1. The last (12th) month of the year.
4. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
12. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
18. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
19. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
20. A wind from the north.
21. Darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft).
23. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
25. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
27. A broad band that passes over the back of a horse and supports the shafts of a vehicle.
29. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
32. Club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron.
33. Small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye.
36. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
40. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
41. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
42. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
45. Source of a tough elastic wood.
46. A long-handled oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward.
48. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
51. Former measure of the US economy.
52. A path set aside for walking.
56. A genus of Strigidae.
58. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
59. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
60. In a short and concise manner.
62. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
63. Type genus of the Gliridae.
64. Water frozen in the solid state.
65. A widely distributed rock-forming feldspar.
69. A pen for cattle.
72. An affirmative.
74. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
75. The template for protein synthesis.
78. Fallow deer.
82. With rapid movements.
87. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
88. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
90. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
92. (informal) Of the highest quality.
93. English monk and scholar (672-735).
94. Little known Kamarupan languages.
95. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
96. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
97. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
98. God of fire.
99. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
100. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
3. A bottle with a stopper.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. A unit of pressure.
9. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
10. A liquid solution that results from elution.
11. Firmly fastened or secured against opening.
12. A large mass of ice floating at sea.
13. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
14. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
15. Sewing that repairs a worn or torn place in a garment.
22. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
26. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
28. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
30. Devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence.
31. A large stringed instrument.
34. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
35. Thunderous verbal attack.
37. With eagerness.
38. Partial or total loss of memory.
39. Lower someone's spirits.
43. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
44. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
47. Someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest.
49. Physical strength.
50. A river in southeastern France.
53. Common Indian weaverbird.
54. Made warm or hot.
55. Reduce the level of land, as by erosion.
57. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
61. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
66. African hunting dog.
67. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
68. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
70. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
71. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
73. French novelist.
76. Incapable of or resistant to bending.
77. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
79. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
80. An official who carries a mace of office.
81. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
83. The short weak cry of a young bird.
84. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
85. 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.
86. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
89. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
91. Used of a single unit or thing.
92. A cgs unit of work or energy.
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