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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Obvious and dull.
9. Weapons considered collectively.
13. Informal terms for the mouth.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. Lower in esteem.
18. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
19. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
20. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
22. A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation.
25. Of or relating to or involving an area.
26. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
27. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
28. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
31. The agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered.
33. Type genus of the Anatidae.
36. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
40. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
44. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
47. A large round wicker basket (used on farms).
49. (Greek mythology) God of love.
51. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
53. Informal terms for a mother.
54. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
55. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
57. Covered with beads of liquid.
58. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language.
61. The state of being disregarded or forgotten.
63. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
64. Make unable to perform a certain action.
65. Sour or bitter in taste.
66. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
67. Inability to urinate.
71. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
72. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
73. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
76. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
80. Make less visible or unclear.
86. Be about.
87. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
88. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
90. Sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system.
92. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
93. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
94. A small cake leavened with yeast.
95. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
96. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
97. Either extremity of something that has length.
98. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
99. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
100. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
4. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
7. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. Towards the side away from the wind.
9. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
10. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
11. New Zealand conifer.
12. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
13. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
14. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
15. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
21. A state in midwestern United States.
23. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
24. A dealer in seeds.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
32. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
34. Ornately marked and brightly colored snails of brackish waters.
35. The fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.
37. English Catholic novelist (1904-1991).
38. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
39. Not friendly.
41. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
42. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
45. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
50. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
52. Verbal abuse.
56. Capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression.
59. A city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
60. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
62. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
68. Of or relating to or characteristic of Monaco or its people.
69. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
70. Soft Italian cheese like cottage cheese.
71. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
74. A vaguely specified concern.
75. The froth produced by soaps or detergents.
76. Having been taken in marriage.
77. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
78. A metal or leather projection (as from the sole of a shoe).
79. Late time of life.
81. Very dark black.
82. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
83. A desert in central Asia.
84. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
85. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
89. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
91. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
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