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1. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
4. Of a pale purple color.
9. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
13. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
16. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
17. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
18. Wearing or provided with clothing.
19. Fiddler crabs.
20. (Irish) The sea personified.
21. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
23. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
25. Having the slant of a bevel.
27. Being one more than one.
28. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
30. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
31. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
33. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
34. Characteristic of false pride.
35. A woman's large folded hooped hood.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. Look at with amorous intentions.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
46. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
47. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
50. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
52. Fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers.
53. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
56. Take revenge for a perceived wrong.
57. Someone who arrives (or has arrived).
60. Cotton trousers made of corduroy cloth.
63. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
64. Large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned.
65. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
67. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
68. Having equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles having opposite signs and separated by a small distance.
70. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
71. (Greek mythology) Greek god of darkness who dwelt in the underworld.
73. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
75. Advanced in years.
76. A state in northwestern North America.
77. Before noon.
79. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
80. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
87. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
91. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
93. An armless couch.
95. Extremely pleasing.
96. European shad.
97. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
99. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
100. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
101. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
102. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
103. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
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1. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
2. English essayist (1775-1834).
3. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
4. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
5. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
6. Open to change.
7. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
8. A inexpensive showy collectibles.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
12. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
13. Type genus of the Musaceae.
14. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
15. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
22. A city in northwestern Germany and an important Baltic port.
24. Lend dignity or honor to.
26. The kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal.
29. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
32. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
36. A signer of a 1679 address to Charles II in which those who petitioned for the reconvening of Parliament were condemned and abhorred.
38. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
40. Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light.
41. Women's underwear and nightclothes.
42. Having an illustrious reputation.
45. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
48. Expose to fresh air, as of old clothing.
49. Very large red gum tree.
51. Immediately past.
54. Performance of moral or religious acts.
55. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
58. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
59. Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units.
61. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
62. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
66. The loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign).
69. Large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants.
70. A inexpensive showy collectibles.
72. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
74. A native of ancient Troy.
75. A doctor's degree in religion.
78. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
81. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
82. A French abbot.
83. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
84. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
85. Not out.
86. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
88. In bed.
89. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
90. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
92. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
94. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
98. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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