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1. Preserve of crushed fruit.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. Temporary living quarters.
12. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
16. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
17. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
18. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
19. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
20. United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946).
22. Read anew.
24. Belonging to some prior time.
25. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
26. A populous province in northeastern China.
28. Someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious.
30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
31. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
33. A siren of German legend who lured boatmen in the Rhine to destruction.
37. A genus of Caltha.
41. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
43. 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).
47. A group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans.
48. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
49. A long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat.
51. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
52. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
55. A nitrogen-containing base found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine.
58. A doctor's degree in religion.
59. A German city near Leipzig.
61. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
63. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
64. Directed up.
66. Complacently or inanely foolish.
68. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
70. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
73. (Greek mythology) Winged goddess of victory.
74. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
76. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
78. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
81. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
84. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
86. (Greek mythology) The god of the underworld in ancient mythology.
88. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
92. A transuranic element.
93. Small Old World songbird with a reddish breast.
96. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
98. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
99. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
100. A university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River north of Bangor.
101. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
102. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
103. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
104. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
105. A small cake leavened with yeast.
106. A young woman making her debut into society.
107. A state in midwestern United States.
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1. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
2. Of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation.
3. (archaic) A fitting reward.
4. An honorary degree in science.
5. Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
8. A genus of tall Asian trees of the family Bombacaceae.
9. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
10. Used especially of fruits.
11. Genus of showy plants of western North America having palmate leaves and variously colored racemose flowers.
12. French dramatist noted for his reinterpretations of Greek myths (1910-1987).
13. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
14. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. Hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton.
21. A garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle).
23. The fatty flesh of eel.
27. Geraniums of Europe and South America and Australia especially mountainous regions.
29. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
32. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
35. A course of conduct.
36. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.
38. Be teeming, be abuzz.
39. A republic in the western Balkans in south-central Europe in the eastern Adriatic coastal area.
40. German statesman.
42. Crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions.
44. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
45. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
46. A land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water.
50. East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok.
53. Distant in either space or time.
54. A three-tone Chadic language.
56. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
57. A festival featuring African-American culture.
60. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
62. Small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered.
65. Adorned or crowned with a circlet.
67. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
69. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
71. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
72. An impression made from an etched plate.
75. Informal terms for a mother.
77. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
79. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
80. Long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp.
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
85. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
87. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
88. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
89. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
90. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
91. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
94. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
95. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
97. A bachelor's degree in theology.
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